Medical Mycology Case Reports (Jun 2020)

Histoplasma capsulatum and Mycobacterium avium co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and literature review

  • Rossana Patricia Basso,
  • Vanice Rodrigues Poester,
  • Jussara Maria Silveira,
  • Roseli Stone Vieira,
  • Luisa Dias da Mota,
  • Gabriel Baracy Klafke,
  • Jéssica Nunes Müller,
  • Crislaine Padilha Penna,
  • Júlia Silveira Vianna,
  • Caroline Busatto,
  • Pedro Eduardo Almeida da Silva,
  • Ivy Bastos Ramis,
  • David A. Stevens,
  • Melissa Orzechowski Xavier

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28
pp. 29 – 32

Abstract

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We report a case of fungal and mycobacterial co-infection in an immunosuppressed patient from Southern Brazil. Histoplasmosis was diagnosed in an AIDS patient admitted to the hospital with nonspecific respiratory signs. However, 4 months post hospital discharge, the patient worsened and a co-infection with Mycobacterium avium was detected. Physicians must consider and investigate a broad spectrum of diseases which can occur as co-infections and which share the same clinical symptoms and signs in immunosuppressed patients.

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