Concomitant Mycobacterium avium infection and Hodgkin's disease in a lymph node from an HIV-negative child

Abstract:

We report a case of an immunocompetent child with simultaneously an infection with Mycobacterium avium and Hodgkin's disease in a cervical lymph node. A positive PCR result for M. avium on a biopsy of the lymph node directed the definitive diagnosis for both etiologies and avoided a possible dissemination of this infection after chemotherapy was started. © 2010 Arányi Lajos Foundation.

Año de publicación:

2011

Keywords:

• Hodgkin's disease
• PCR
• Mycobacterium avium

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