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Infección por mucormicosis pulmonar en un ni？o con SIDAKeywords: mucormycosis [diagnosis], mucormyycosis [drug therapy], aids-related opportunistic infections, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [complications], amphotericin b [therapeutic use]. Abstract: it is described a pulmonary mucormycosis in an 11-year-old child with aids. the diagnosis was obtained by direct examination of the bronchial aspiration. the non-septate, hyaline, dichotomous, pathognomonic cenotic hyphae of this disease were observed. the child was cured with the specific treatment with amphotericin b, since he died a year later and this affection did not appear in the necropsy. this combination of pulmonary mucormycosis and aids has never been reported in cuba.
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