[Disseminated mucormycosis in AIDS].
Mucormycosis is a rare often fatal opportunistic condition. It mainly occurs in immunocompromised subjects but rarely in AIDS patients. An eighteen-year-old HIV+ man from Zaire died rapidly from disseminated mucormycosis with pulmonary, cardiac, renal, hepatic, splenic and gastric involvement. Fungi were observed in all these organs with a particular vascular trophism. Rhizopus orizae was identified on cultures. Rapid microscopic diagnosis, in the localized stage, could improve the poor prognosis of this infection.
Lagorce Pagès
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Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris.
Fabre
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Bruneel
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Zimmermann
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Hénin
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D000293:Adolescent; D001344:Autopsy; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000473:pathology*