A middle aged male with no known comorbidities presented with history of colicky abdominal pain, low grade fever and weight loss. Laboratory parameters were normal except low albumin. Imaging showed multiple areas of mural thickening with enhancement in jejunum & ileum. On Colonoscopy there was a thickened and deformed ileum with multiple ulcers. The biopsy showed co-infection of CMV and histoplasma, urine antigen for histoplasma was positive and CMV DNA detected in blood. He was successfully treated with combination of Valgancyclovir and Amphotericin-B followed by itraconazole.
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