Cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis occurs commonly in immunocompromised patients with high mortality. CMV infection has also been reported immunocompetent individuals and it a varied clinical presentation. When HIV-infected are started on antiretroviral therapy (ART) there is reconstitution of the immune system which results paradoxical worsening existing conditions or development new disease known ...

background: species of microsporidia have been known as opportunistic obli-gate intracellular parasites particularly in immunocompromised patients. enterocyto-zoon bieneusi is one of most prevalent intestinal microsporida parasites in hiv + /aids patients. in this study, intestinal microsporidia infection was deter-mined in hiv + /aids patients using microscopic and molecular methods. methods: ...

To the Editor—Gorelik et al [1] recently published an interesting study regarding intrapatient acquired JC virus (JCV) VP1 mutation within patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), which favors brain invasion of JCV through impairment of sialicacid-dependent binding in the periphery. It is proposed that host cell entry by JCV occurs in a sialic-acid-independent manner in t...

INTRODUCTION Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare lymphoma associated with immunosuppression. It is strongly associated with immunosuppression (human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]) and often occurs within the oral cavity. PBL is also seen in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy; however, despite its predisposition for the immunocompromised patients, PBL has been diagnosed in immunocomp...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease worldwide and can result in pre-malignancies or overt malignancies of the skin and mucosal surfaces. HPV-related illnesses are an important personal and public health problem causing physical, mental, sexual and financial detriments. Moreover, this set of malignancies severely affects the immunosuppressed popul...

Talaromycosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by dimorphic fungus Talaromyces marneffei. It endemic in Southeast Asia and generally complicates immunocompromised individuals, especially those infected human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Here, we report an autocthonus case of talaromycosis occurring non-HIV-infected Bangladeshi type 2 diabetic patient who presented with non-resolving pneum...

conclusions concurrent pulmonary nocardiosis and tuberculosis is frequent in hiv-infected patients. rapid and sensitive methods such as pcr are recommended for detection of such co-infections. results from 157 sputum specimens, positive samples by acid fast staining, culture and pcr for m. tuberculosis were reported for 7.6% (12/157), 10.1% (16/157) and 7% (11/157) of samples, respectively. no ...

Cryptosporidium parvum is usually considered the agent of human cryptosporidiosis. However, only in the last few years, molecular biology-based methods have allowed the identification of Cryptosporidium species and genotypes, and only a few data are available from France. In the present work, we collected samples of whole feces from 57 patients from France (11 immunocompetent patients, 35 human...

conclusions given the prevalence of most gastrointestinal parasites, the hiv-positive patients show a weak immune system and higher sensitivity for infection particularly for opportunistic parasites. so, routine stool tests for detection of intestinal parasites are very useful for people with weakened immune systems. results the prevalence of intestinal parasites was 48.8%, which shows a high p...