[Cryptococcal meningitis and positive syphilitic serology in a patient infected by HIV].
Co-infection of Cryptococcal meningitis and syphilis is rare. We report the first case of coinfection with cryptococcus neoformans and treponema pallidum in Dakar. There was a 41 yearold senegalese man with HIV2 infection despite a CD4 count of 50 /mm3. The patient have had the history of precedent genital ulcerations and trush. Finally he died on eigth day of treatment with Fluconazol and Penicillin G.
Seydi
M
M
Clinique Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Fann-Dakar (Sénégal).
N'Diaye
M
M
Dia
N M
NM
Soumaré
M
M
N'Dour
C T
CT
Dieng
Y
Y
Diop
B M
BM
Sow
P S
PS
Diop
A G
AG
Badiane
S
S
D000328:Adult; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016919:Meningitis, Cryptococcal / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D013587:Syphilis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D013588:Syphilis Serodiagnosis