Clinical Case • Female, 27 years of age •3 rd year Internal Medicine resident at the Mexicali General Hospital • Never smoked; does not ingest alcoholic beverages or use illicit drugs • Used to run 5 km daily before being ill • Single, no children; lives with parents
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Clinical Case Female, 27 years of age 3 rd year Internal Medicine resident at the Mexicali General Hospital Never smoked; does not ingest alcoholic beverages.
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Clinical Case
• Female, 27 years of age
• 3rd year Internal Medicine resident at the Mexicali General Hospital
• Never smoked; does not ingest alcoholic beverages or use illicit drugs
• Used to run 5 km daily before being ill
• Single, no children; lives with parents
• Previous medical history: non-relevant; no known allergies
• Contact with tuberculosis patients: extremely frequent at her hospital; assisted in bronchoscopy procedures several times during her 1st year of residency
• Has never been diagnosed with TB or received TB treatment before
• Started her symptoms – July 2005; right pleuritic chest pain; self-limited. Chest