title: [Cryptococcal meningitis and positive syphilitic serology in a patient infected by HIV].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Fann-Dakar (Sénégal).
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seydi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: N'Diaye
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Dia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soumaré
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: N'Dour
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dieng
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Sow
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Badiane
mesh_terms: 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