Penicillium marneffei Infection in AIDS

Table 1

Symptomatology of penicilliosis in HIV-positive patients.

	Study location; (number of subjects)
Signs/symptoms	Thailand [8]	India [17]	Hong Kong [18]
	(𝑁=80)	(𝑁=36)	(𝑁=47)*
Fever	93%	97%	96%
Skin lesion	71%	81%	28%
Anaemia	78%	86%	79%
Hepatomegaly	51%	39%	28%
Splenomegaly	16%		15%
Lymphadenopathy	58%	33%	62%
Diarrhoea	31%	22%	15%
Cough	49%	—	40%
Presence of other OIs	55%	77%	57%

OI: opportunistic infection.
*94% of the 47 subjects are confirmed HIV positive.