A 25‐year‐old male patient reported four weeks of chills, night sweats, weight loss and dyspnoea following one week in Bali, Indonesia, seven weeks prior. His past medical history included Crohn's disease managed for ten years with infliximab, a monoclonal antibody against tumour necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α). In vitro interferon‐γ release assay (IGRA) performed at age 14 years, which was conducted years after he had travelled to Egypt for two months in childhood, was negative.
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We thank Dr Ellen Maxwell, from Melbourne Pathology, for providing the pathology figure.
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