Disseminated mucormycosis in AIDS

Mucormycosis is a rare often fatal opportunistic condition. It mainly occur s in immunocompromized subjects but rarely in AIDS patients. nn eighteen-ye ar-old HIV+ man from Zaire died rapidly from disseminated mucormycosis with pulmonary, cardiac renal, hepatic, splenic and gastric involvement. Fungi were observed in all these organs with a particular vascular trophism. Rhiz opus orizae was identified on cultures. Rapid microscopic diagnosis, in the localized stage, could improve he poor prognosis of this infection.