Abstract

MARTINEZ, Yolette et al. Histoplasmosis duodenal y colónica presentación de un caso y revisión de la literatura. Gen [online]. 2008, vol.62, n.1, pp.58-59. ISSN 0016-3503.

Chronic diarrhea by infectious causes is an extremely common complication in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV). The digestive tract is the first affected organ by opportunist infections. In approximately 50 % of the patients it can be established the infection agent involved with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a CD4 count of less than 200 cells/mm3 (AIDS C3). Severe inmunosupresion patients are susceptible to develop disseminate histoplasmosis and more than 75 % have digestive tract disease and diarrhea as a mainly symptom. The following case is a 40-year-old male with HIV and duodenal and colonic histoplasmosis.

Keywords : histoplasmosis; human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV); acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).