DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS INFECTION CAUSED BY A PRESUMED MONOXENOUS TRYPANOSOMATID IN A PATIENT INFECTED WITH HIV

Authors
DEDET JP ROCHE B PRATLONG F CALESQUIST D JOUANNELLE J BENICHOU JC HUERRE M
Citation
Jp. Dedet et al., DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS INFECTION CAUSED BY A PRESUMED MONOXENOUS TRYPANOSOMATID IN A PATIENT INFECTED WITH HIV, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 89(6), 1995, pp. 644-646
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Tropical Medicine
Journal title
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene → ACNP
ISSN journal
00359203
Volume
89
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
644 - 646
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-9203(1995)89:6<644:DCICBA>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A patient infected with human immunodeficiency virus developed a diffu se cutaneous nodular syndrome. The parasite isolated from a skin nodul e was studied by isoenzymatic characterization and transmission electr on microscopy of both culture forms and those in the patient's skin bi opsy. The parasite's ultrastructure was that of a typical member of th e family Trypanosomatidae, but it differed isoenzymatically from all ' New' and 'Old World' species of Leishmania, Trypanosoma and Sauroleish mania. We believe that it was a (presumably) monoxenous 'lower' trypan osomatid.