Other conditions with symptoms similar to tuberculosis (TB)
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Other conditions with symptoms similar to tuberculosis (TB)
Some of the symptoms of tuberculosis (TB)—coughing, fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, and night sweats—also can occur in other illnesses that affect the lungs. These illnesses may occur along with TB infection.
Some of these other conditions include:
- Lung cancer.
- Bacterial lung abscess (empyema).
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Pneumonia.
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
- Infection with a fungus, such as in histoplasmosis.
- Infection with another Mycobacterium, such as Mycobacterium kansasii or Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex.
Credits
| Author | Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Denele Ivins |
| Associate Editor | Pat Truman, MATC |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Alfred A. Lardizabal, MD - Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine/Tuberculosis |
| Last Updated | May 16, 2007 |
| Last updated: | May 16, 2007 |
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| Author: | Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS |
| Reviewed By: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Alfred A. Lardizabal, MD - Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine/Tuberculosis |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Pat Truman, MATC |
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