Chronic primary central nervous system histoplasmosis in a healthy child with intermittent neurological manifestations

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013 Jul;32(7):794-6. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31828d293e.

Abstract

Meningitis is an unusual clinical manifestation of Histoplasma capsulatum infection in nonimmunosuppressed children. We report a previously healthy 6-year-old boy with primary, chronic histoplasma meningitis and magnetic resonance imaging findings consistent with demyelinating disease presenting with brief, intermittent neurological manifestations for 7 months before diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Child
  • Chronic Disease
  • Histoplasma / isolation & purification*
  • Histoplasmosis / diagnosis*
  • Histoplasmosis / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Fungal / diagnosis*
  • Meningitis, Fungal / pathology*
  • Radiography
  • Recurrence