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Rickettsialpox in a patient with HIV infection
Scott Sanders1, Damian Di Costanzo, James Leach
1Department of Dermatology, Cornell University Weill Medical Center and Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, NY, USA.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|February 13, 2003
Abstract:
We describe the first case of rickettsialpox in a patient infected with HIV. Immunohistochemical staining of biopsied lesions showed a relatively large number of rickettsiae within the papulovesicular rash. Rickettsialpox is easily treated and may resemble more serious cutaneous eruptions in patients infected with HIV. This diagnosis should be considered in immunocompromised city-dwellers, with fever and a papulovesicular rash.