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SUBMITTER: Damasceno LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083345 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 20200127
The present report describes the first case of postpartum disseminated histoplasmosis in a 24-year-old HIV-negative woman. On the tenth day after vaginal delivery, the patient presented with dyspnea, fever, hypotension, tachycardia, and painful hepatomegaly. Yeast-like Histoplasma capsulatum features were isolated in the buffy coat. The phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the fungal isolate was similar to other H. capsulatum isolates identified in HIV patients from Ceará and Latin America. T ...[more]