Talaromyces marneffei fungemia after travel to China in a Canadian patient with AIDS

KEY POINTS A 62-year-old man was admitted to the general medicine service with a 2-month history of odynophagia, fevers, rigors, a 22-kg unintentional weight loss and watery diarrhea. He had moved to Canada 25 years earlier from Guangzhou, China (Guangdong Province) and had last visited China 1 year

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