Concomitant disseminated histoplasmosis and cryptococcosis in a person with AIDS

AIDS Read. 2006 Nov;16(11):602-6.

Abstract

A 46-year-old Hispanic male from Ecuador presented with fever, malaise, weight loss, and dyspnea. He was HIV-positive with a CD4+ cell count of 4/microL. He was hospitalized, and therapy for community-acquired pneumonia with broad-spectrum antibiotics was started. Both Histoplasma capsulatum and Cryptococcus neoformans were cultured from bronchial lavage, blood, and bone marrow specimens. Despite aggressive therapy with amphotericin B, the patient died 8 days after admission.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / microbiology*
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / microbiology*
  • Cryptococcosis / virology*
  • Cryptococcus neoformans / isolation & purification
  • HIV*
  • Histoplasma / isolation & purification
  • Histoplasmosis / virology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged