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Gastrointestinal translocation as a possible source of candidemia in an AIDS patient Translocação gastrointestinal como possível fonte de fungemia em paciente portador de AIDS
- Source :
- Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 38, Iss 3, Pp 197-200 (1996)
- Publication Year :
- 1996
- Publisher :
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 1996.
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Abstract
- 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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00364665 and 16789946
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.35cbcdb7c6a4f0f84d32a8524c61558
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651996000300006