Title
Coinfección por Mycobacterium fortuitum y Mycobacterium tuberculosis en abscesos esplénicos en un paciente con VIH
Other title
Co-infection by mycobacterium fortuitum and mycobacterium tuberculosis in splenic abscesses in a patient with HIV
Date Issued
01 April 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
Patients with HIV are susceptible to mycobacterium infection. In the case of fast-growing mycobacteria, the group to which Mycobacterium fortuitum (M. fortuitum) belongs, infections have been described in the skin, lungs, lymph nodes and disseminated disease. We present the case of a 43-year-old male patient with pre-diagnosis of HIV in antiretroviral therapy, which comes as a fever, asthenia, weight loss and chronic diarrhea. Abdominal tomography is performed and hepatosplenomegaly is evidenced with nodular lesions in the spleen. The splenic culture was finally positive for M. Fortuitum, with positive PCR to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The current treatment protocols for this type of infection are based on the susceptibility shown in the cultures performed. With regard to coinfections between M. Fortuitum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in HIV positive patients, there are even less information.
Start page
328
End page
331
Volume
34
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85028957008
PubMed ID
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
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