Blastocystis hominis in an HIV-positive homosexual patient
Vallano, A.; Pigrau, C.; Hernández, A.; Gavaldá, J.
Revista Clinica Espanola 188(2): 110-111
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0014-2565 PMID: 2041894 Document Number: 372318
The case of a 43-year-old HIV-positive patient suffering with Blastocystis hominis infection is reported. The man developed diarrhoea and fever but these disappeared within 4 days of antibiotic treatment with a cephalosporin.
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