Frías SJA, Moreno HNA, Cruz AE

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ABSTRACT

A case patient female, complaining of headache, nausea, vomiting, somnolence, short memory problems, loss of weight and coma. T. cruzi were seen in a cerebrospinal, with Cryptococcus; multiple ring enhancing lesions on CT scan, died. T. cruzi infection of the CNS is a rare disease, but we have an increasing number of cases in HIV immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis by direct observation of CSF is uncommon; this article intends to include cerebral trypanosomiasis in the differential diagnosis of intracranial space-occupying lesions, especially in immunocompromised patients from endemic regions. This is first report in Mexico of Chagas´s related to an HIV infection with CNS involvement.

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