Short report: What is AIDS in the Amazon and the Guianas? Establishing the burden of disseminated histoplasmosis

Abstract

The pathogen ecology of Amazonian regions may lead to specific differences in the most frequent clinical presentations of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A retrospective cohort study was thus conducted to describe the main AIDS-defining events in French Guiana. Disseminated histoplasmosis was the most frequent opportunistic infection (15.4/1000 person years). Copyright © 2011 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.