Jornal de AIDS e Pesquisa Clínica

Disseminated Histoplasmosis in an AIDS Patient

Abstract

Maria Paula Rua Rodriguez Rochedo, Beatriz Moritz Trope, MarienSiqueira Soto Lopes, Tullia Cuzzi and Marcia Ramos-e-Silva

The authors report a case of histoplasmosis in an Aids patient who took HAART irregularly for the past 10 years. He presented pulmonary symptoms and cutaneous lesions on the face. Therapy with amphotericin B followed by itraconazol controlled the fungal infection. Physicians who deal with Aids patients must be aware of the possibility of this mycosis especially when there is a low CD4 count.