Concurrent bloodstream infection with Histoplasma capsulatum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

J Med Vet Mycol. 1991;29(5):343-5.

Abstract

An immunosuppressed patient is the first to be reported with both histoplasmal fungemia and tuberculous bacteremia, emphasizing the need to consider polymicrobial infection in such patients and the utility of lysis-centrifugation and radiometric blood culture techniques.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bacteremia / complications*
  • Fungemia / complications*
  • Histoplasmosis / complications*
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tuberculosis / complications*