Serum galactomannan in histoplasmosis in HIV

Histoplasmosis is an opportunistic infection (OI) in HIV infected patients. The Diagnosis is challenging due to lack of testing facilities. Hereby we report a young male who presented with fever & rash, was diagnosed with HIV and disseminated histoplasmosis. The timely management with antifungal...

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Autores principales: Baidya, Ankita, Sachdeva, Charu Goel, Bhatia, Priyanka, Pruthi, Ankur, Joshi, Sangeeta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9891003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743085
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_92_21
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author Baidya, Ankita
Sachdeva, Charu Goel
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Pruthi, Ankur
Joshi, Sangeeta
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description Histoplasmosis is an opportunistic infection (OI) in HIV infected patients. The Diagnosis is challenging due to lack of testing facilities. Hereby we report a young male who presented with fever & rash, was diagnosed with HIV and disseminated histoplasmosis. The timely management with antifungals was started after the of positive serum galactomannan report in the background of appropriate clinical setting.
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spelling pubmed-98910032023-02-02 Serum galactomannan in histoplasmosis in HIV Baidya, Ankita Sachdeva, Charu Goel Bhatia, Priyanka Pruthi, Ankur Joshi, Sangeeta Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Reports Histoplasmosis is an opportunistic infection (OI) in HIV infected patients. The Diagnosis is challenging due to lack of testing facilities. Hereby we report a young male who presented with fever & rash, was diagnosed with HIV and disseminated histoplasmosis. The timely management with antifungals was started after the of positive serum galactomannan report in the background of appropriate clinical setting. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9891003/ /pubmed/36743085 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_92_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Serum galactomannan in histoplasmosis in HIV
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9891003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743085
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_92_21
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