Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, The 1999
Intestinal tuberculosis in patients with fever of unknown origin in Egypt.
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Nineteen patients with intestinal tuberculosis were admitted to the Abbassia Fever Hospital in the period 1991-1997. Fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss were the most common symptoms. Small bowel radiology and colonoscopy were helpful in establishing the diagnosis. The difficulties in diagnosing tuberculous enteritis and the need to consider seriously the possibility of this disease in such patients is most important and is discussed.