Fungal respiratory tract infections in AIDS
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia is the most common fungal lung infection in patients with AIDS.
- it is one of the first HIV related clinical problems (1)
Other fungal lung infections are caused by:
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Aspergillus fumigatus
- although exposure to Aspergillus is common, Aspergillosis develops only in patients with prolonged severe immunosuppression (1)
- Histoplasma capsulatum
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