| Literature DB >> 15832562 |
Mario León Silva-Vergara1, Frederico Ricardo Zago Maneira, Renata Mônica De Oliveira, Celso Tadeu Barbosa Santos, Renata Margarida Etchebehere, Sheila Jorge Adad.
Abstract
This report describes a 29-year-old man with AIDS and disseminated lymphocutaneous sporotrichosis diagnosis presenting a poor therapeutic adhesion to itraconazole therapy that later evolved to neurological impairment and death. Necropsy showed granulomatous reaction and yeast-like forms similar to Sporothrix schenckii in meninges, lymph nodes, marrow bone, skin, testicles, epididymides and pancreas. Meningeal sporotrichosis cases associated to AIDS are reviewed in brief.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15832562 DOI: 10.1080/13693780500035904
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Mycol ISSN: 1369-3786 Impact factor: 4.076