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Case Reports

Symptomatic duodenal cryptococcosis in HIV-infected individuals

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Pages 775-778 | Received 24 Dec 2010, Accepted 11 Feb 2011, Published online: 28 Feb 2011
 

Abstract

Gastrointestinal involvement is an uncommon manifestation of cryptococcosis and, consequently, there are very few reports that have described symptomatic duodenal involvement. We present three cases of Cryptococcus-associated duodenitis in HIV-positive patients and review the literature.

Acknowledgements

Jorge Alave was supported for the Perú ICOHRTA Network for AIDS/TB Research Training Grant (NIH Grant 1U2RTW007368-01A1- Fogarty International Center).

Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

This paper was first published online on Early Online on 4 March 2011.

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