de Oliveira Santos Eder, dos Reis Canela João, Gomes Monção Henry Carlos, Guedes Roque Mauro José
Universitary Hospital Clemente Faria, State University of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Braz J Infect Dis. 2002 Dec;6(6):317-21. doi: 10.1590/s1413-86702002000600009.
Reactivation of chronic Chagas' disease is a rare condition and occurs only in immunosuppressed patients. We report a case of a patient with a rapid and fatal reactivation of Chagas' disease, manifested by meningoencephalitis, which lead to a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We believe there is sufficient evidence to include the reactivation of Chagas' disease among the diagnostic criteria of AIDS in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.
慢性恰加斯病的再激活是一种罕见情况,仅发生在免疫抑制患者中。我们报告一例恰加斯病迅速且致命性再激活的患者,表现为脑膜脑炎,最终诊断为获得性免疫缺陷综合征(艾滋病)。我们认为有足够证据将恰加斯病的再激活纳入人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)感染中艾滋病的诊断标准。