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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 1987
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the lethal end stage of a sexually transmitted disease caused by a virus that is producing the major epidemic of our century. In this article we describe the history and epidemiology of AIDS and the disease states associated with infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the apparent cause of ...
R W, Wood, A, Collier
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annual Review of Nursing Research, 1990
The occurrence of unusual infections, in particular Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and the rare neoplasm Kaposi's sarcoma, in previously healthy homosexual men in the late 1970s heralded the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection, the most severe form of which is the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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Immunoglobulins in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
Excerpt To the editor: Virologic and seroepidemologic evidence strongly suggests an association between human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) infection and the acquired immunodeficiency sy...
FIORILLI, Massimo, CARBONARI, Maurizio, B. Scarpati, G. Scano, C. Gaetano, AIUTI, Fernando   +5 more
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ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME IN RWANDA

The Lancet, 1984
To evaluate acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in central Africa a prospective study was done in Kigali, Rwanda, where Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is endemic. During a 4 week period, 26 patients (17 males and 9 females) were diagnosed. 16 patients had opportunistic infections, associated with KS in only 2; 1 had multifocal KS alone; and 9 had clinical
P, Van de Perre, D, Rouvroy, P, Lepage, J, Bogaerts, P, Kestelyn, J, Kayihigi, A C, Hekker, J P, Butzler, N, Clumeck   +8 more
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NEUROPATHOLOGY OF ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 1988
Neuropathology of acquired immunodeficiency syndromeThe nervous system is involved in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infections and infestations, by neoplasms, and by several diseases of uncertain pathogenesis. The most common pathological abnormalities are the changes associated with the HIV agent itself, the ‘HIV subacute ...
M F, Gonzales, R L, Davis
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Hemophilia and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
Excerpt To the editor: Approximately 2 years have elapsed since the first description of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in patients with classic hemophilia (factor VIII deficiency) (1).
O D, Ratnoff, M M, Lederman, C, Krill, L M, Pass, C E, Ross   +4 more
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Romania

The Lancet, 1991
After the initial description of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Romania in late 1989, national AIDS case surveillance was established with a modified version of the World Health Organisation (WHO) clinical case definition. This modified case definition requires that AIDS cases have both clinical and serological evidence of human ...
B S, Hersh, F, Popovici, R C, Apetrei, L, Zolotusca, N, Beldescu, A, Calomfirescu, Z, Jezek, M J, Oxtoby, A, Gromyko, D L, Heymann   +9 more
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Haiti and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Excerpt Haitians represent about 5% of the total number of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
J R, Leonidas, N, Hyppolite
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Cryptococcosis in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
The clinical course and response to therapy of 27 patients with cryptococcosis and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were reviewed. Cryptococcosis was the initial manifestation of the syndrome in 7 patients, and the initial opportunistic infection in an additional 7. Meningitis was the commonest clinical feature (18 patients).
JOSEPH A. KOVACS, ANDREA A. KOVACS, MICHAEL POLIS, W. CRAIG WRIGHT, VEE J. GILL, CARMELITA U. TUAZON, EDWARD P. GELMANN, H. CLIFFORD LANE, ROBERT LONGFIELD, GARY OVERTURF, ABE M. MACHER, ANTHONY S. FAUCI, JOSEPH E. PARRILLO, JOHN E. BENNETT, HENRY MASUR   +14 more
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Appendicitis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

The American Journal of Surgery, 1992
Reports in the surgical literature are few regarding common intra-abdominal disease processes, such as gallstone disease or appendicitis, in patients with AIDS and instead have focused on AIDS-related intra-abdominal diseases that infrequently require surgical intervention unless complicated by bleeding, obstruction, or perforation. A literature review
T M, Whitney, J R, Macho, T R, Russell, K J, Bossart, F W, Heer, W P, Schecter   +5 more
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