Acid fast filaments in stool samples from an aids patient
Medicina (B.Aires)
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58(6): 733-5, 1998. ilus
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in English
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| ID: lil-228225
ABSTRACT
The presence of filamentous bacteria morphologically similar to Nocardia in a fresh stool sample from an AIDS patient with pulmonary nocardiosis is here reported. The material was submitted to our laboratory for a parasitologic examination and was stained by the Kinyoun method, revealing numerous delicate, irregularly stained, branching acid-fast filaments. Nocardia asteroides had been isolated from sputum samples of this patient. The patient was a 32 year-old HIV+ female admitted to our center on june 1997 because of productive cough, right-sided thoracic pain and weight loss. Chest X rays showed the presence of right superior lobe excavated pneumonia. This was the first time we had observed filamentous bacteria similar to Nocardia in a stool sample submitted to parasitologic examination. For similar cases, and when its presence was not detected in other specimens collected from the same patient, intestinal endoscopy and biopsy should be performed for eventual lesions and smear examination repeated with Kinyoun stain and cultures for Nocardia.
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Main subject:
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
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Pneumonia, Bacterial
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Feces
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Nocardia asteroides
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Nocardia Infections
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Medicina (B.Aires)
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
1998
Type:
Article
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