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Two patients with AIDS and disseminated tuberculosis characterized by cutaneous involvement are reported. They developed a maculopapular skin eruption, from which a multidrug-resistantMycobacterium tuberculosis strain was isolated. In both cases the clinical course was rapidly fatal. Tuberculosis cutis miliaris disseminata should be differentiated from the skin lesions frequently seen in HIV-infected patients, especially from folliculitis. In patients with tuberculosis, the appearance of cutaneous lesions may be due to the haematogenous dissemination of mycobacteria. Therefore, early identification of the causative organism by use of optimal microbiological methods is fundamental.
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Antinori, S., Galimberti, L., Tadini, G.L. et al. Tuberculosis cutis miliaris disseminata due to multidrug-resistantMycobacterium tuberculosis in AIDS patients. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14, 911–914 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691500
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