PENICILLIUM-MARNEFFEI PNEUMONOPATHY FOUND IN A THAI WOMAN-PATIENT HIV-POSITIVE

The first case in Nantes of a pneumopathy with Penicillium marneffei f ound in a Thai ill woman HIV positive is reported. The original aspect of this observation comes from the exclusive lung localization with f ew cutaneous signs. The mycologic identification was established in th e same time from cultures of broncho-alveolar fluid samples and from b lood samples. The discovery of this pathology allowed us to reveal the woman seropositivity for the HIV. After a favourable evolution during a therapy based first on amphotericin B then followed by itraconazole , two months after, the patient. died of zona meningoencephalitis.