Histoplasmosis due to Histoplasma capsulatum: Case report from the Internal Medicine Service, National Hospital of Treichville, Cote d'Ivoire

The advent of AIDS has resulted in an increase in diseases which were previously rare. In HIV-infecled subjects, histoplasmosis takes a disseminated and particularly severe farm, with a fatal outcome in our country, the more so because the clinical presentation resembles tuberculosis and is generally treated as such. The authors report a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient dually-reactive to HIV-I and HIV-2, in whom the clinical presentation was fever, mediastinal lymphadenopathy and pulmonary infiltrates. The diagnosis of histoplasmosis was made at autopsy.