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PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundMajor depressive disorder in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is common and may be associated with a number of factors, including AIDS-related stigma, decreased CD4 levels, increased opportunistic infections and sociodemographic variables ...
Dickens Akena +3 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Subclinical tuberculosis is an asymptomatic disease phase with important relevance to persons living with HIV. We describe the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and risk of mortality for HIV-infected adults with subclinical tuberculosis ...
Kristina L. Bajema +6 more
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Cryptococcal Antigen Testing in an Integrated Medical System: Eastern Wisconsin
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2020 Cryptococcosis is a serious environmentally acquired endemic fungal infection commonly associated with immunocompromised hosts. Little is known regarding frequency or distribution in Wisconsin.
Marianne Klumph +2 more
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Trends in AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men and among Injecting Drug Users, 1991-1996 [PDF]
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1998 Incidence trends for the 13 most frequent AIDS-defining opportunistic infections (OIs) among men who have sex with men (MSM, n = 15,588) and injecting drug users (IDUs, n = 4475) were examined using data abstracted from medical records in >90 hospitals and clinics in nine US cities during 1991-1996.
J L, Jones +4 more
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Acremonium pneumonia in an AIDS patient
IDCases, 2017 Acremonium is a saprophytic fungus mostly causing superficial skin, nail, or ocular infections after traumatic inoculation. However, it is being recently recognized as one of the opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients including ...
Negin Niknam +3 more
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Iron Regulation and an Opportunistic AIDS-Related Fungal Infection
PLoS Biology, 2006 Because HIV attacks the very cells charged with fighting infection, the virus compromises the body’s ability to co-exist with pathogens that are otherwise harmless. It is these pathogen-induced opportunistic infections, and not the virus itself, that produce the most debilitating effects of the disease.
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014 Background: The natural history of HIV infection has changed dramatically after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Currently, opportunistic illnesses still represent a major cause of death and hospitalization in this population. In
Lara Coelho +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2011 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe systemic infectious disease.(1) It has been recognized as an opportunistic disease in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).(2,3) The analysis of the bone marrow of patients co-infected with VL ...
Alana Jocelina Montenegro de Castro +2 more
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HIV-associated central nervous system opportunistic infections
Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2016 The occurrence rate of central nervous system (CNS) opportunistic infections in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients is extremely high.
Wei MA, Xue-wen FAN
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Dermatological manifestations in patients with HIV/AIDS
Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, 2015 In view of the frequency of the dermatological manifestations in patients who suffer from AIDS/HIV, and with the objective of describing their behaviour, a descriptive,observational, and cross sectional investigation was carried out in the cases of the ...
Sahily De la Paz Peña +3 more
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