Acalculous Cholecystitis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient
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https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.1547Keywords:
histoplasmosis, HIV, billiary tractAbstract
Billiary tract involvement in the course of disseminated histoplasmosis has been rarely reported. Here we present a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient who presented with symptomatic acalculous cholecystitis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum.
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2011-03-21
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Alave J, Bustamante B, Soto L, Caceres J, Seas C (2011) Acalculous Cholecystitis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient. J Infect Dev Ctries 5:235–238. doi: 10.3855/jidc.1547
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