RENAL INFECTION DUE TO ABSIDIA-CORYMBIFERA IN AN AIDS PATIENT

Authors
TORRESRODRIGUEZ JM LOWINGER M COROMINAS JM MADRENYS N SABALLS P
Citation
Jm. Torresrodriguez et al., RENAL INFECTION DUE TO ABSIDIA-CORYMBIFERA IN AN AIDS PATIENT, Mycoses, 36(7-8), 1993, pp. 255-258
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases",Mycology
Journal title
Mycoses → ACNP
ISSN journal
09337407
Volume
36
Issue
7-8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
255 - 258
Database
ISI
SICI code
0933-7407(1993)36:7-8<255:RIDTAI>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A case of renal zygomycosis due to Absidia corymbifera in an heroin ad dict suffering from AIDS (phase IV C2) is described. Diagnosis was by histopathology after nephrectomy, but A. corymbifera was isolated seve ral times from urine and from the exudate from a fistula in the surgic al wound. After amphotericin B treatment (1.5 g overall dose) clinical cure and negative cultures were obtained. No relapses were observed u ntil death 1 year later from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.