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[Nocardiosis in a patient with AIDS]
P Marín Casanova1, P García Martos, C Fernández Gutiérrez del Alamo
1Hospital de la Seguridad Social de Cádiz.
Revista Clinica Espanola
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
A young drug addict with positive anti-HIV antibodies, OKT4/OKT8 ratio below 1, oropharingeal candidiasis and pulmonary Pneumocystis carinii infection, dies due to a cerebral abscess with a septic status. The postmortem microbiologic study shows pulmonary abscesses and Nocardia asteroides is isolated from lung tissue and spinal fluid. We note out the rareness of this pathology and its relation to AIDS.