Cystoisospora belli is an intestinal Apicomplexan parasite associated with diarrheal illness and disseminated infections in humans, mainly immunocompromised individuals such as those living the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired syndrome (AIDS). An irregular administration of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) HIV patients may increase risk opportunistic like cystoisospori...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the characteristics of and risk factors for mortality among non-HIV-infected immunocompromised patients with an in-hospital diagnosis of tuberculosis. METHODS This was a two-year, retrospective cohort study of patients with an in-hospital diagnosis of tuberculosis. The predictive factors for mortality were evaluated. RESULTS During the study period, 337 hospitalized...

Toxoplasmosis, a neglected tropical disease caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, occurs throughout the world. Human T. gondii infection is asymptomatic in 80% of the population; however, the infection is life-threatening and causes substantial neurologic damage in immunocompromised patients such as HIV-infected persons. The major purpose of this study was to investigate the serop...

background: encephalitozoon cuniculi infects a wide range of homoeothermic animals, including man. complications due to this microsporidian have been reported only in immunocompromised patients. reports on e. cuniculi in immunocompetent humans are lacking, most probably, because it is not linked to any clinical manifestations in such hosts. the present work was carried out with the aim of study...

Gastrointestinal infections are more common and more severe in immunocompromised individuals. This study was performed on immunocompromised patients namely those infected with HIV, transplants recipient and those with haematological malignancies. Work was carried out in the parasitological laboratory, Department of Microbiology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow from 1st February 2008 to 31st June 2008. We foun...

Pulmonary infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the immunosuppressed patients. The aim of this study was to determine the etiologic agents and predisposing factors associated with pneumonia infections in immunocompromised patients. Cross-sectional survey of 100 immunocompromised patients due to HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections were enlisted for the study. The p...

Untreated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be complicated by opportunistic infections, including disseminated histoplasmosis (DH). Although endemic to portions of the United States and usually benign, DH can rarely act as an opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients presenting with uncommon complications such as acute kidney injury and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. We r...

Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis is considered rare in HIV-negative individuals. In Madagascar, the epidemiology of cryptococcosis has not yet been well described, neither in immunocompetent nor in immunocompromised patients. We report here the first Malagasy detailed case of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis in a non-HIV immunocompromised adult patient carrying a low fluconazole susceptibility ...

toxoplasma encepfiautis (te) is rare in pediatric patients, but it is an emerging opportunistic infection in the increasing number of immunocompromised hosts. it should be considered in patients who present with fever and evolving cns symptoms. the outcome of these patients is always poor because of delay in diagnosis. we report one case of toxoplasma encephalitis in a child without hiv infecti...

accurate and rapid diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) disease in immunocompromised patients has remained as a challenge. quantitative competitive pcr (qc-pcr) methods for detection of hcmv in these individuals have improved the positive and negative predictive values of pcr for diagnosis of hcmv disease. in this study we used qc-pcr assay, using a co-amplified dna standard, to quantitate...