ABSTRACT
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.
Subject(s)
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/microbiology , Lung Diseases, Fungal/microbiology , Mucormycosis , AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/diagnosis , AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/drug therapy , Amphotericin B/therapeutic use , Antifungal Agents/therapeutic use , Child , Fatal Outcome , Humans , Lung Diseases, Fungal/diagnosis , Lung Diseases, Fungal/drug therapy , Lymphangitis/complications , Male , Mucormycosis/diagnosis , Mucormycosis/drug therapy , Shock, Septic/etiology , Tibia/injuriesABSTRACT
Up to this moment, 25 children have been born from mothers seropositive to HIV. Of these, only 12 who are seropositive have been studied. Four of these children had developed the disease (33.3%), and the route of transmission was a blood transfusion. From the moment they were born, these children had been followed up monthly at the out-patient service and the polymerase chain reaction test, as well as ELISA and western blot is performed at 3, 6, and 9 months of age. Also, the same test are performed at 18 and 36 months of age for diagnostic confirmation in order to know whether they are virus carriers.
