Tuberculosis — Switzerland
“A 20-year-old Swiss male presented at the emergency department with acute onset of febrile temperatures and hemoptysis and a 3-month history of productive cough. An X-ray and CT scan of the chest, sputum samples for acid-fast bacilli, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and cultures for _Mycobacteria_ revealed pulmonary infection with _Mycobacterium tuberculosis_. None of the classical risk factors for tuberculosis were present, but the patient reported regularly smoking a water pipe. Water-pipe
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