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MEDICAL MYCOLOGY CASE REPORTS
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages 41-44Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.004
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AIDS; Histoplasmosis; Histoplasma; Co-infection
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- Colciencias, Bogota, Colombia
- Corporacion para Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB), Medellin, Colombia
- Fondo de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Rosario (FIUR), Bogota, Colombia
- Mycotic Diseases Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA
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A total of 23/45 (51%) patients with AIDS and histoplasmosis from Medellin, 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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