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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2026

A Case of Neurohistoplasmosis Successfully Treated With Single High-Dose Liposomal Amphotericin B.

Tarsila Vieceli, Renata de Bastos Ascenço Soares, Taiguara Fraga Guimarães, João Victor Soares Coriolano Coutinho, Debora Brenda Paes Rocha Sabino, Cassia Silva de Miranda Godoy, Daiane F Dalla-Lana, Luana C Bazana, Nathan C Bahr, Alessandro C Pasqualotto

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Tarsila VieceliDepartment of Pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6274-1320
Renata de Bastos Ascenço SoaresInfectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Doenças Tropicais, Goiânia, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1029-325X
Taiguara Fraga GuimarãesInfectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Doenças Tropicais, Goiânia, Brazil.
João Victor Soares Coriolano CoutinhoDepartment of Research and Education, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
Debora Brenda Paes Rocha SabinoInfectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Doenças Tropicais, Goiânia, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1316-5783
Cassia Silva de Miranda GodoyInfectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Doenças Tropicais, Goiânia, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4893-0541
Daiane F Dalla-LanaDepartment of Pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3612-7305
Luana C BazanaDepartment of Pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3495-094X
Nathan C BahrDivision of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9431-8938
Alessandro C PasqualottoDepartment of Pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6782-5395

Funding

Histoplasmosis Induction and Consolidation Therapy Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial (HISTO-FACT)R01AI195133 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Nathan Bahr, Alessandro Comaru Pasqualotto · 2025 to 2026
$2.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI195133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disseminated histoplasmosis is a leading AIDS-related opportunistic mycosis and carries high mortality risk. A simplified induction strategy using single high-dose of liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB) has shown promise for disseminated disease, but persons with central nervous system (CNS) involvement were excluded from the clinical trial. We describe a 35-year-old man with advanced HIV disease (CD4 24 cells/µL) and a high fungal burden who was diagnosed with disseminated histoplasmosis and, subsequently, culture-confirmed CNS involvement. He was administratively withdrawn from the trial when CNS involvement was noted. He was treated within a randomized trial with a single 10 mg/kg dose of L-AmB, followed by antiretroviral therapy (ART) and itraconazole consolidation therapy, with full clinical recovery, normalization of cerebrospinal fluid biochemistry findings, and microbiological clearance. This suggests that a single high-dose L-AmB induction strategy, combined with effective ART and azole consolidation therapy, may be viable in selected patients with CNS involvement.

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Histoplasma capsulatumhistoplasmosisHIV/AIDSliposomal amphotericin Bneurohistoplasmosis

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PMID42872202
PMCPMC13660682

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