Serum galactomannan in histoplasmosis in HIV Baidya A, Sachdeva CG, Bhatia P, Pruthi A, Joshi S, - J Indian Prosthodont Soc

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Serum galactomannan in histoplasmosis in HIV Ankita Baidya¹, Charu Goel Sachdeva², Priyanka Bhatia³, Ankur Pruthi⁴, Sangeeta Joshi⁵ ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Manipal Hospital, New Delhi, India ² Department of Internal Medicine, Manipal Hospital, New Delhi, India ³ Department of Pathology, Manipal Hospital, New Delhi, India ⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Manipal Hospital, New Delhi, India ⁵ Department of Microbiology, Manipal Hospital, New Delhi, India Correspondence Address: Ankita Baidya, Department of Infectious Diseases, HCMCT, Manipal Hospital, New Delhi India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_92_21

Histoplasmosis is an opportunistic infection (OI) in HIV infected patients. The Diagnosis is challenging due to lack of testing facilities. Hereby we report a young male who presented with fever & rash, was diagnosed with HIV and disseminated histoplasmosis. The timely management with antifungals was started after the of positive serum galactomannan report in the background of appropriate clinical setting.

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