The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia

A total of 23/45 (51%) patients with AIDS and histoplasmosis from Medellín, Colombia had other infections. Tuberculosis was the most common (n = 16/23, 70%). Pneumocystosis and cryptococcosis were found in three patients each (13%), bacterial infection and cytomegalovirus occurred each in two patien...

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Autores principales: Caceres, Diego H., Tobón, Ángela M., Restrepo, Ángela, Chiller, Tom, Gómez, Beatriz L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Special issue section Case Studies in AIDS related Mycoses; Edited by Tihana Bicanic and Darius Armstrong-James
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.004
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author Caceres, Diego H.
Tobón, Ángela M.
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Chiller, Tom
Gómez, Beatriz L.
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description A total of 23/45 (51%) patients with AIDS and histoplasmosis from Medellín, Colombia had other infections. Tuberculosis was the most common (n = 16/23, 70%). Pneumocystosis and cryptococcosis were found in three patients each (13%), bacterial infection and cytomegalovirus occurred each in two patients (9%) while toxoplasmosis, herpes virus and esophageal candidiasis were recorded in one patient each (4%). Of all co-infected patients, 18/23 (78%) had one, four (17%) had two and one (4%) had three additional opportunistic infections.
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spelling pubmed-57750732018-01-29 The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia Caceres, Diego H. Tobón, Ángela M. Restrepo, Ángela Chiller, Tom Gómez, Beatriz L. Med Mycol Case Rep Special issue section Case Studies in AIDS related Mycoses; Edited by Tihana Bicanic and Darius Armstrong-James A total of 23/45 (51%) patients with AIDS and histoplasmosis from Medellín, Colombia had other infections. Tuberculosis was the most common (n = 16/23, 70%). Pneumocystosis and cryptococcosis were found in three patients each (13%), bacterial infection and cytomegalovirus occurred each in two patients (9%) while toxoplasmosis, herpes virus and esophageal candidiasis were recorded in one patient each (4%). Of all co-infected patients, 18/23 (78%) had one, four (17%) had two and one (4%) had three additional opportunistic infections. Elsevier 2018-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5775073/ /pubmed/29379705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.004 Text en © 2017 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Special issue section Case Studies in AIDS related Mycoses; Edited by Tihana Bicanic and Darius Armstrong-James
Caceres, Diego H.
Tobón, Ángela M.
Restrepo, Ángela
Chiller, Tom
Gómez, Beatriz L.
The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia
title The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia
title_full The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia
title_fullStr The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia
title_full_unstemmed The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia
title_short The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH): A cohort from Colombia
title_sort important role of co-infections in patients with aids and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (pdh): a cohort from colombia
topic Special issue section Case Studies in AIDS related Mycoses; Edited by Tihana Bicanic and Darius Armstrong-James
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.004
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