Publications of Faculty of Medicine:HIVINFECTIONWITHUNCOMMONASSOCIATIONS: ACASEREPORT: Abstract

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HIVINFECTIONWITHUNCOMMONASSOCIATIONS: ACASEREPORT
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The profound immune defects associatedwith human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may lead to altered clinical presentation, a more aggressive course arid multiplicity of associated disease1. The occurrence of cutaneous leishmaniasis,2'3'4'5 tuberculosis,6'7'8'9'10 and syphilis'11'12 among patients infected with HIV in whom it presents with uncommon clinical, biological and evolutionary signs, is being reportedmore arid more often1.We report a case of HIV infected patient with disseminated cutaneous leishmanisis, overlapped by kaposis's sarcoma, accompanied by Fournierts gangrene of the penis and anal fissure.