Pulmonary mucormycosis infection in a boy with AIDS
González Núñez, I.; Dosal Caruso, L.; Díaz Jidy, M.; Torres Gómez De Cadiz Silva, A.; Martínez Machín, G.
Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical 49(3): 218-221
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0375-0760 PMID: 9685991 Document Number: 477474
It is described a pulmonary mucormycosis in an 11-year-old child with AIDS. The diagnosis was obtained by direct examination of the bronchial aspiration. The non-septate, hyaline, dichotomous, pathognomonic cenotic hyphae of this disease were observed. The child was cured with the specific treatment with Amphotericin B, since he died a year later and this affection did not appear in the necropsy. This combination of pulmonary mucormycosis and AIDS has never been reported in Cuba.