AIDS-Related Endemic Mycoses in Western Cape, South Africa, and Clinical Mimics: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults With Advanced HIV and Recent-Onset, Widespread Skin Lesions

S. Schwartz, Ilan; Kenyon, Chris; Lehloenya, Rannakoe; Claasens, Saskya; Spengane, Zandile; Prozesky, Hans; Burton, Rosie; Parker, Arifa; Wasserman, Sean; Meintjes, Graeme; Mendelson, Marc; Taljaard, Jantjie; Schneider, J; Beylis, Natalie; Maloba, Bonnie; P. Govender, Nelesh; Colebunders, Robert; Dlamini, Sipho

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofx186

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AIDS-Related Endemic Mycoses in Western Cape, South Africa, and Clinical Mimics: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults With Advanced HIV and Recent-Onset, Widespread Skin Lesions

Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases • Jan 1, 2017

Authors:

Ilan S. Schwartz

Chris Kenyon

Rannakoe Lehloenya

Abstract

Abstract Background Skin lesions are common in advanced HIV infection and are sometimes caused by serious diseases like systemic mycoses (SM). AIDS-related SM endemic to Western Cape, South Africa, include emergomycosis (formerly disseminated emmonsiosis), histoplasmosis, and sporotrichosis. We prev...

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Medicine

Sporotrichosis

Histoplasmosis

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