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A 36-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with the recent onset of fever spikes and an increase in chronic diarrhea.
The patient was known to have the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), with the first demonstration of a positive test for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) five years earlier. Two or three years before admission chronic sinusitis developed and was followed by chronic diarrhea that was believed to be due to cryptosporidiosis. Twenty-eight months before entry he was treated for cryptococcal meningitis with amphotericin B, and he later began long-term suppressive treatment with fluconazole by mouth. Seventeen months before
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