Manfredi R, Calza L

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 192-195
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ABSTRACT

An exceptionally rare case of concurrent central nervous system infection by clyptococcus neoformans and mycobacterium tuberculosis in a 25-year-old otherwise healthy Chinese student who very recently joined Italian post-doctoral courses is described, together with diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties encountered in a six-month-long hospitalization period, when only transient and/or negligible immune system impairments were detected. A non-bacillary pulmonary tuberculosis probably preceded and prompted both brain complications. This episode of very infrequent concurrent infections, should enforce the need of maintaining an elevated clinical suspicion for opportunistic infections and tuberculosis, even in absence of an obvious immunodeficiency, and related epidemiological clues.

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