DISSEMINATED CUTANEOUS MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH AIDS

Individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are a t an increased risk of both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. (1) Disseminated cutaneous tuberculosis is rare, but has been reported in four HIV-positive patients, all of whom also had pulmonary infecti on.(2-5) In this report we describe an HIV-infected patient with a feb rile illness and an abnormal chest radiograph who developed widespread cutaneous tuberculous pustules following a lymph node biopsy on the p revious day.