Case Presentation: A 43-year-old male with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), off antiretroviral therapy (ART) for 5 years presented to an outside hospital in July 2022 with diffuse umbilicated skin lesions. Skin scrapings for the monkeypox virus PCR were positive. No medications were prescribed. Days later, the patient was admitted to a different hospital with worsening [...]

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old man was diagnosed with AIDS after presenting to his PCP for subacute subjective fevers, unintended weight loss, headache, and generalized malaise. He was referred to infectious diseases and was started on Biktarvy for ART as well as Bactrim and Zithromax for prophylaxis for a CD4 count of 18 cells/mm3 and HIV [...]

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male who immigrated from Guatemala six years ago with untreated HIV presented with 3 weeks of fatigue, headache, and night sweats. He was initially diagnosed with HIV three years earlier, but just began ART one week prior to his presentation, after being seen at a community clinic. He was started on [...]

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old man from Central America with a history of newly diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (CD4 119 cells/mm^3, CD4 8%, viral load 61,000 copies/mL) presented with two months of progressive shortness of breath. Physical exam was remarkable for anasarca, diffuse cutaneous purpuric plaques as well as bilateral respiratory crackles. Chest x-ray revealed bilateral [...]

Case Presentation: A 38 year-old female with Crohn’s disease on infliximab presented to the ED with 3 weeks of fever, cough, and shortness of breath (SOB) unresponsive to a 10-day course of levofloxacin for presumed community acquired pneumonia (CAP). She emigrated from Ecuador in 2001 and was employed as a medical assistant in a private [...]