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Asymptomatic prostatic tuberculous abscess in an immunocompetent 54-year-old man with peritoneal tuberculosis
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  1. Z Cavalli1,2,
  2. F Ader1,2,3,
  3. C Chidiac1,2,3,
  4. T Ferry1,2,3
  5. on behalf of the Lyon TB Study group
  1. 1Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
  2. 2Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
  3. 3Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Inserm U1111, CNRS UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, UCBL1, Lyon, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tristan Ferry, tristan.ferry{at}univ-lyon1.fr

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2015-212342

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    A 54-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of weight loss, fever, sweats, swelling and abdominal pain. He had diabetes mellitus, alcoholism with hepatic fibrosis and epilepsy. He came from Cambodia but had no history of tuberculosis (TB) vaccination, TB, or known contact. We found biological inflammatory syndrome (C reactive protein,141 mg/L), lymphopaenia (1.34 G/L, with a total white cell count of 5.35 G/L), interferon-γ release assay was positive …

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