PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Reynaldo Quagliato
AU  - Mauricio Leme
AU  - Paulo Tonidandel
AU  - Welwitschia Dias
AU  - Maira Zanovello
AU  - Gisele Yonezawa
AU  - Aristoteles Barbeiro
AU  - Lair Zambom
TI  - Unusual association of tuberculosis with schistosomiasis and tuberculosis with sporotrichosis
DP  - 2011 Sep 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - p2648
VI  - 38
IP  - Suppl 55
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/Suppl_55/p2648.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/Suppl_55/p2648.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2011 Sep 01; 38
AB  - Introduction: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that causes currently nearly 2 million deaths worldwide. More than 200,000 of these occur in patients co-infected with HIV. There are about 700 000 new cases a year, and we found the presence of two cases with atypical association of schistosomiasis and sporotrichosis.Objective: To report our experience with concomitant infection tuberculosis with schistosomiasis and sporotrichosis.Method: Cases study of patients infected with tuberculosis in the Hospital of the UNICAMP-Campinas,Brazil.Results: We found the case of man, 55 years, alcoholic, with pleural effusion for about a year. Thoracocentesis resulted in exudate and ADA= 66 U/L. Chest CT showed mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Result of culture of lymph node removed by mediastinoscopy was positive to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Sporothrix schenckii. The other case is a 32 years old, male, with a history of fever and weight loss with chest x-ray opacity in the left apex. Chest CT showed a mass in right upper lobe permeated by a tree in bud and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. He underwent lobectomy that showed the presence of Schistosoma mansoni and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in parenchyma, pleura and lymph nodes.Conclusion: Tuberculosis can be associated to other diseases even in HIV-negative patients, including simulating lung cancer.