Conde-Pereira César, Rodas-Rodríguez Lia, Díaz-Paz Manuel, Palacios-Rivera Hilda, Firacative Carolina, Meyer Wieland, Alcázar-Castillo Myriam
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Department of Infectology, Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Aug;53(8):2753-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00840-15. Epub 2015 May 27.
We describe a fatal case of polymicrobial meningitis in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient from Guatemala caused by Cryptococcus liquefaciens and Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Central nervous system infections caused concurrently by these species are extremely rare. This is also the first report of disseminated disease caused by C. liquefaciens.
我们描述了一名来自危地马拉的感染人类免疫缺陷病毒的患者发生的由浅白隐球菌和结核分枝杆菌复合群引起的多微生物性脑膜炎致死病例。这些菌种同时引起的中枢神经系统感染极为罕见。这也是浅白隐球菌引起播散性疾病的首例报告。