An enabling act

Spyridon Chalkias; John P Doweiko; George M Eliopoulos

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofu008

An enabling act

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 Apr 29;1(1):ofu008. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu008. eCollection 2014 Mar.

Authors

Spyridon Chalkias¹, John P Doweiko², George M Eliopoulos¹

Affiliations

¹ Divisions of Infectious Diseases.
² Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

Infection with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) can be associated with hematologic malignancy, inflammatory syndromes, or infectious complications. Herein, we bring attention to HTLV-1 infection complications as we discuss a case of disseminated cryptococcosis in a patient with HTLV-1-associated T cell lymphoma.

Keywords: Cryptococcus neoformans; HTLV-1; human T lymphotropic virus 1.