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Title
Pulmonary **Sporothrix schenckii** infection in a HIV positive child
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Abstract
Sporothrix schenckii is a ubiquitous fungus, causing mostly non life-threatening localized infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissues that can be treated with oral antifungal agents. Meningeal, pulmonary and osteoarticular dissemination occur mainly in immunosuppressed patients. Pulmonary sporothricosis is rare and responds poorly to treatment. Cases of disseminated sporotrichosis have most frequently been reported in patients residing in South America and Asia, and have increasingly been reported in AIDS patients. The distribution and pathogenicity of S. schenckii in Sub-Saharan Africa is not well known. We report a case of invasive pulmonary sporothrichosis in an eleven year old HIV-infected boy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, successfully treated with oral fluconazole.
Language
English
Source (journal)
The journal of tropical pediatrics. - Kingston
Publication
Kingston : 2006
ISSN
0142-6338
0449-3281
0368-4512
0300-9920
DOI
10.1093/TROPEJ/FMI101
Volume/pages
52 :2 (2006) , p. 144-146
ISI
000236614200016
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Last edited 04.12.2021
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