night sweats

Last reviewed 01/2023

Infections which characteristically produce night sweats include:

  • tuberculosis
  • brucellosis
  • typhus
  • enteric fevers - typhoid and paratyphoid
  • infective endocarditis

Other causes include:

  • thyrotoxicosis
  • Hodgkins disease
  • oat cell carcinoma of lung
  • mesothelioma