Cryptococcal meningitis and positive syphilitic serology in a patient infected by HIV; [Cryptococcose neuroméningée associée à une sérologie syphilitique positive chez un sujet infecté par le VIH.]

Co-infection of Cryptococcal meningitis and syphilis is rare. We report the first case of coinfection with cryptococcus neoformans and treponema pallidum in Dakar. There was a 41 yearold senegalese man with HIV2 infection despite a CD4 count of 50 /mm3.The patient have had the history of precedent genital ulcerations and trush. Finally he died on eigth day of treatment with Fluconazol and Penicillin G.