Immune Restoration Disease in HIV Patient

Abstract

We describe a severely immunosuppressed HIV-1–positive man in whom immune restoration disease associated with pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium microti developed after antiretroviral treatment. The diagnosis was made by using convenient spoligotyping techniques, but invasive investigations were required to exclude a tumor.

Keywords

• Mycobacterium microti
• HIV
• immunosuppression
• AIDS-related opportunistic infections
• immune restoration disease
• Dispatch