Another Whipple-Like Disease in AIDS?
- 12 June 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 314 (24) , 1577-1578
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198606123142413
Abstract
To the Editor: Rhodococcus equi (Corynebacterium equi) has recently been added to the catalog of opportunistic pulmonary infections observed in patients with AIDS (Jan. 2 issue).1 We wish to describe the pathologic features of infection with R. equi in a patient with the AIDS-related complex.A young homosexual man was admitted to the hospital after having had fevers (to 39.4°C) for three weeks that did not respond to antibiotic therapy; a wedge-shaped, dense infiltrate of the left upper lobe was seen on chest radiography. The patient had worked for several years as an animal and horse handler. On examination at . . .Keywords
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