Lues maligna in an HIV-infected patient.

Autor: Passoni LF; Serviço de Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias, Hospital dos Servidores do Estado, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. lfpassoni@ig.com.br, de Menezes JA, Ribeiro SR, Sampaio EC
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical [Rev Soc Bras Med Trop] 2005 Mar-Apr; Vol. 38 (2), pp. 181-4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2005 Mar 30.
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822005000200011
Abstrakt: We report such a case of malignant syphilis in a 42-year-old HIV-infected man, co-infected with hepatitis B virus, who presented neurolues and the classical skin lesions of lues maligna. The serum VDRL titer, which was 1:64 at presentation, increased to 1:2,048 three months after successful therapy with penicillin, decreasing 15 months later to 1:8.
Databáze: MEDLINE