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Concomitant Mycobacterium avium Infection and Hodgkin’s Disease in a Lymph Node from an HIV-negative Child

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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.

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  1. Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kourí” (IPK), Havana City, Cuba

    Yaxsier de Armas, Virginia Capó, Ida González, Lilian Mederos & Raúl Díaz

  2. Instituto de Biomedicina, Caracas, Venezuela

    Jacobus H. de Waard

  3. Limonar County Hospital, Limonar, Matanzas Province, Cuba

    Alberto Rodríguez

  4. Juan Manuel Márquez Hospital, Havana City, Cuba

    Yarmila García & Ricardo Cabanas

  5. Autopista Novia del Mediodia Km 6 1/2, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba, P.O.Box 601, Marianao 13

    Yaxsier de Armas

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de Armas, Y., Capó, V., González, I. et al. Concomitant Mycobacterium avium Infection and Hodgkin’s Disease in a Lymph Node from an HIV-negative Child. Pathol. Oncol. Res. 17, 139–140 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12253-010-9275-5

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