Abstract
Opportunistic fungal infections have a high morality rate, occurring most often in immunocompromised subjects. We report the case of a 19-year-old girl who presented with progressively worsening dyspnea, hypoxemia requiring oxygen supplementation with bilateral pulmonary cystic lesions, treated with antibiotics for a presumptive diagnosis of pneumonia. The patient did not improve clinically. A diagnostic bronchoscopy was performed, which revealed ndings consistent with pulmonary pneumocystis. The patient tested positive for HIV, and had a positive cryptococcal antigenemia. She was put on treatment adapted to each fungal infection with a favorable evolution.
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