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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 ...
Robert W. Wood, Ann C. Collier
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Neurological manifestations of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): experience at UCSF and review of the literature.

Journal of Neurosurgery, 1985
In this review of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the authors have evaluated a total of 352 homosexual patients with AIDS or generalized lymphadenopathy managed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), between 1979 and 1984 ...
R. Levy, D. Bredesen, M. Rosenblum
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Infants [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 1984
Fourteen infants with clinical and laboratory features of an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were identified in a single metropolitan area from November 1980 to July 1983. Patients were predominantly of Haitian parentage, although two cases occurred in offspring of non-Haitian intravenous drug abusers.
Joni G. Leterman, Frederick L. Bloom, Gwendolyn B. Scott, Wade P. Parks, Billy E. Buck   +4 more
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Isolation of HTLV-III from cerebrospinal fluid and neural tissues of patients with neurologic syndromes related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1985
We conducted virus-isolation studies on 56 specimens from the nervous system of 45 patients in order to determine whether human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type III (HTLV-III) is directly involved in the pathogenesis of the neurologic disorders frequently ...
D. Ho, T. Rota, R. Schooley, J. Kaplan, J. Allan, J. Groopman, L. Resnick, D. Felsenstein, C. Andrews, M. Hirsch   +9 more
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Prevalence and clinical correlates of metabolic syndrome in Nigerians living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, 2012
BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan Africa bears an inordinate burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
O. Ayodele, A. O. Akinboro, S. O. Akinyemi, A. A. Adepeju, Oluwaseun Akinsanmi Akinremi, C. Alao, A. A. Popoola   +6 more
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Lipids, lipoproteins, triglyceride clearance, and cytokines in human immunodeficiency virus infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1992
Infection causes disturbances in lipid metabolism that may be mediated by cytokines. Therefore we studied plasma lipids, lipoproteins, triglyceride (TG) metabolism, and serum cytokines in three groups: patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
C. Grunfeld, M. Pang, W. Doerrler, J. Shigenaga, P. Jensen, K. Feingold   +5 more
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Mycobacterium avium complex infection in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1991
ORGANISMS of the Mycobacterium avium complex have long been recognized as an uncommon cause of pneumonia in persons with chronic lung disease.1 2 3 4 Organisms of this complex, which comprises two closely related species, M. avium and M.
Horsburgh Cr
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Oral candidiasis in high-risk patients as the initial manifestation of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1984
We studied the frequency with which unexplained oral candidiasis led to unequivocal acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in patients at risk.
R. Klein, C. Harris, C. Small, B. Moll, M. Lesser, G. Friedland   +5 more
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The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Haiti

Journal of Urology, 1985
Two hundred twenty-nine patients in Haiti with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were studied between 1979 and 1984. The clinical spectrum of the syndrome in Haitians was similar in most aspects to that in patients with the disease in the United States.
J.-R. Mathurin, Madeleine Boncy, Bernard Liautaud, M.-M.A. St. Amand, Warren D. Johnson, Thomas F, Jean W. Pape, Jack DeHovitz, Vergniaud Pean, Laroche Ac, Pamphile M   +10 more
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: a comparison between patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and patients with other immunodeficiencies.

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1984
Clinical features of 49 episodes of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were compared with those of 39 episodes in patients with other immunosuppressive diseases.
J. Kovacs, J. Hiemenz, A. Macher, D. Stover, H. Murray, J. Shelhamer, H. Lane, C. Urmacher, C. Honig, D. Longo   +9 more
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