Concurrent bloodstream infection with Histoplasma capsulatum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
An immunosuppressed patient is the first to be reported with both histoplasmal fungemia and tuberculous bacteremia, emphasizing the need to consider polymicrobial infection in such patients and the utility of lysis-centrifugation and radiometric blood culture techniques.
Tucker
R M
RM
Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA.
Hamilton
J R
JR
Stevens
D A
DA
D016470:Bacteremia / Q000150:complications*; D016469:Fungemia / Q000150:complications*; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications*