THE 2ND CASE OF PERITONITIS DUE TO HISTOPLASMA-CAPSULATUM DURING CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL-DIALYSIS IN BRAZIL

Authors
LOPES JO ALVES SH BENEVENGA JP ROSA AC
Citation
Jo. Lopes et al., THE 2ND CASE OF PERITONITIS DUE TO HISTOPLASMA-CAPSULATUM DURING CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL-DIALYSIS IN BRAZIL, Mycoses, 37(5-6), 1994, pp. 161-163
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases",Mycology
Journal title
Mycoses → ACNP
ISSN journal
09337407
Volume
37
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
161 - 163
Database
ISI
SICI code
0933-7407(1994)37:5-6<161:T2COPD>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
This paper reports a case of infection due to Histoplasma capsulatum a pparently restricted to the peritoneum in a woman submitted to continu ous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Diagnosis was established b y direct examination and culture of dialysis effluent. Although the st ate of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost in Brazil, is not considere d a region of high endemicity for histoplasmosis, this is the second c ase of infection occurring in a patient during CAPD.