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. 1995 Oct;71(5):308–310. doi: 10.1136/sti.71.5.308

Disseminated cutaneous Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a patient with AIDS.

E L Corbett 1, I Crossley 1, K M De Cock 1, R F Miller 1
PMCID: PMC1195547  PMID: 7490048

Abstract

Individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at an increased risk of both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Disseminated cutaneous tuberculosis is rare, but has been reported in four HIV-positive patients, all of whom also had pulmonary infection. In this report we describe an HIV-infected patient with a febrile illness and an abnormal chest radiograph who developed widespread cutaneous tuberculous pustules following a lymph node biopsy on the previous day.

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