TY - JOUR
T1 - The important role of co-infections in patients with AIDS and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH)
T2 - A cohort from Colombia
AU - Caceres, Diego H.
AU - Tobón, Ángela M.
AU - Restrepo, Ángela
AU - Chiller, Tom
AU - Gómez, Beatriz L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Colciencias , Bogotá, Colombia via the young investigators and innovators program Virginia Gutierrez de Pineda, the Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Medellín, Colombia, the Fondo de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Rosario (FIUR), Bogota, Colombia and the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s)
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.004
DO - 10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 29379705
AN - SCOPUS:85040328840
SN - 2211-7539
VL - 19
SP - 41
EP - 44
JO - Medical Mycology Case Reports
JF - Medical Mycology Case Reports
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