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Leptospirosis patient with AIDS: the first case reported
E de S Neves1, M M Pereira, M C Galhardo
1Hospital Evandro Chagas, Department of Bacteriology, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
A case of renal icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis involving a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is reported. Despite the low levels of CD4+ T lymphocytes, the clinical course of leptospirosis was similar to that observed in non-immunodepressed patients, and no worsening of AIDS occurred due to the infection by the spirochete. Serologic conversion was observed in the microscopic agglutination test, with maximum titer of 1:3,200. The patient had positive urine cultures for Leptospira interrogans for two months, whereas blood cultures were negative.