[Cryptococcal meningitis and positive syphilitic serology in a patient infected by HIV]

Dakar Med. 2001;46(1):65-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Co-infection of Cryptococcal meningitis and syphilis is rare. We report the first case of coinfection with cryptococcus neoformans and treponema pallidum in Dakar. There was a 41 yearold senegalese man with HIV2 infection despite a CD4 count of 50 /mm3. The patient have had the history of precedent genital ulcerations and trush. Finally he died on eigth day of treatment with Fluconazol and Penicillin G.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • HIV Infections / blood
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / blood
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / complications*
  • Syphilis / blood
  • Syphilis / complications*
  • Syphilis Serodiagnosis