Simultaneous chronic pulmonary paracoccidiodomycosis and disseminated cryptococcosis in a non-HIV patient

Mycopathologia. 2005 Apr;159(3):373-6. doi: 10.1007/s11046-005-0251-7.

Abstract

An unusual case of chronic pulmonary paracoccidiodomycosis and disseminated cryptococcosis in a non-HIV infected patient is reported in a 72-year-old previously healthy man. A chest radiograph disclosed a bilateral diffused interstitial infiltrate involving middle and lower lung fields. Specimen samples taken from the tracheal tube revealed yeast-like organisms suggestive of Cryptococcus neoformans and Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid culture was positive for C. neoformans and the immunodiffusion test against paracoccidiodin revealed a precipitation band. The patient died 24 days after the admission.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Chronic Disease
  • Cryptococcosis / complications*
  • Cryptococcosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Cryptococcus neoformans / isolation & purification*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Fungemia
  • HIV Seronegativity
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / microbiology*
  • Male
  • Paracoccidioides / isolation & purification*
  • Paracoccidioidomycosis / complications*
  • Paracoccidioidomycosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Sputum / microbiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Trachea / microbiology