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
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.