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Ex Vivo Infection of Human Lymphoid Tissue and Female Genital Mucosa with Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 and Histoculture
Published on: October 12, 2018
Human T Lymphotropic virus-1 associated gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in Peru
Carlos Canelo-Aybar1, Jose Cuadra-Urteaga, Fernando Atencia
1Department of Internal Medicine, Arzobispo Loayza Hospital, Lima, Peru. carlos.canelo@hotmail.com
Abstract:
We report a 72-year-old patient with chronic diarrhoea and histologic evidence of gastrointestinal histoplasmosis. He had no history of HIV or of taking immunosuppressive drugs. The patient was found to be a carrier of Human T-lymphotropic virus-1, a condition associated with inflammatory, lymphoproliferative, and opportunistic infectious diseases. To our knowledge, there are only three previous cases reporting this coinfection and this is the first documented case with gastrointestinal involvement.
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