Gastrointestinal translocation as a possible source of candidemia in an AIDS patient Translocação gastrointestinal como possível fonte de fungemia em paciente portador de AIDS

Apart from cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis, which are mycoses contained by T cell-mediated mechanisms of host defense, fungemia is rarely found in AIDS patients. The frequency of fungemia due to Candida spp. has been reported to be as low as 1 %. We report a non-neutropenic AIDS patient who presen...

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Published in:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors: Arnaldo Lopes Colombo, Maria Luiza Branchini, Débora Geiger, Ana Lucia Schimidt, Antonio Carlos Campos Pignatari, Olga Fischman
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1996
Subjects:
Fungemia
AIDS
Candidiasis
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651996000300006
https://doaj.org/article/a35cbcdb7c6a4f0f84d32a8524c61558
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Summary:Apart from cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis, which are mycoses contained by T cell-mediated mechanisms of host defense, fungemia is rarely found in AIDS patients. The frequency of fungemia due to Candida spp. has been reported to be as low as 1 %. We report a non-neutropenic AIDS patient who presented a candidemia which probably arose from her gastrointestinal tract. Diferente de histoplasmose e criptococose, doenças fúngicas associadas a depressão da imunidade celular, fungemia causada por Candida spp. tem sido raramente relatada em pacientes com AIDS. O presente relato ilustra um caso de candidemia em paciente não neutropênico portador de AIDS, cuja origem parece ter sido via translocação através do trato gastrointestinal.

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