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[Drug hypersensitivity in AIDS patients: report of a case]
L M Ribeiro1, A C Pastorino, A S Grumach
1Departamento de Pediatria, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
Revista Do Hospital Das Clinicas
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Drug allergy is a common symptom in HIV infected patients, with higher prevalence that in general population. We describe a child with AIDS and adverse reactions to several drugs indicated for Pneumocystis carinii prophylaxis and antibiotics. Reaction to intravenous pentamidine was present in this case and it is not an usual findings in HIV infected children. Alternative therapy and desensitization to TMP-SMX are also discussed.