Li Chen1, Liqiong Yu2, Yi Wu2, Wai-Kit Ming3, Zhihong Huang2, Shengming Liu2. 1. First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: 326209276@qq.com. 2. First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. 3. First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA; Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Abstract
CASE PRESENTATION: A 52-year-old man was referred to our hospital for cough, fever, chest pain, and progressive dyspnea. He has worked as a full-time security staff at a community center and was in a normal state of health until 11 months prior to referral when he began experiencing cough, expectoration, a high-grade fever (up to 39.7°C), chills, and left chest pain. He visited the local hospital several times with suspected lung cancer. Bronchoscopy showed chronic inflammatory changes in his bronchi. He was given a course of antibiotics, but his fever had not subsided. The patient had visited a bamboo rat farm and consumed bamboo rat meat one year previously. He had never smoked.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 52-year-old man was referred to our hospital for cough, fever, chest pain, and progressive dyspnea. He has worked as a full-time security staff at a community center and was in a normal state of health until 11 months prior to referral when he began experiencing cough, expectoration, a high-grade fever (up to 39.7°C), chills, and left chest pain. He visited the local hospital several times with suspected lung cancer. Bronchoscopy showed chronic inflammatory changes in his bronchi. He was given a course of antibiotics, but his fever had not subsided. The patient had visited a bamboo rat farm and consumed bamboo rat meat one year previously. He had never smoked.