Infections in immunocompromised patients in Mexico.

The primary objective of this report is to provide medical oncologists and infectious disease specialists with pertinent information on the diagnosis and management of various infectious and especially tropical diseases as they affect cancer and other immunocompromised patients in the largest general hospital in Mexico. Limited, but hopefully stimulating, data are presented here that should permit better understanding of the magnitude and geographic peculiarities that these illnesses have in a segment of the population that includes primarily the poorest and the sickest.