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- Title
TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION MIGHT INCREASE THE RISK OF INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT PATIENT.
- Authors
Xiao-Hua CHEN; Yun-Chao GAO; Yi ZHANG; Zheng-Hao TANG; Yong-Sheng YU; Guo-Qing ZANG
- Abstract
Deep Candida infections commonly occur in immunosuppressed patients. A rare case of a multiple deep organ infection with Candida albicans and spinal tuberculosis was reported in a healthy young man. The 19-year-old man complained of month-long fever and lower back pain. He also had a history of scalded mouth syndrome. Coinfection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Candida albicans was diagnosed using the culture of aspirates from different regions. Symptoms improved considerably after antifungal and antituberculous therapy. This case illustrates that infection with tuberculosis might impair the host's immune system and increase the risk of invasive candidiasis in an immunocompetent patient.
- Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS complications; INVASIVE candidiasis; IMMUNOLOGIC diseases; MIXED infections; MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; CANDIDA albicans; PATIENTS; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2015, Vol 57, Issue 3, p273
- ISSN
0036-4665
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1590/S0036-46652015000300016