Abstract

GONZALEZ NUNEZ, IDA et al. Infección por mucormicosis pulmonar en un niño con SIDA. Rev Cubana Med Trop [online]. 1997, vol.49, n.3, pp. 218-221. ISSN 1561-3054.

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.

Keywords : MUCORMYCOSIS [diagnosis]; MUCORMYYCOSIS [drug therapy]; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [complications]; AMPHOTERICIN B [therapeutic use].