Effect of Prophylaxis on the Clinical Manifestations of AIDS‐Related Opportunistic Infections [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1998 Administration of targeted prophylaxis for AIDS-related opportunistic infections has contributed significantly to the recent decrease in mortality among patients with AIDS in the United States. Most reported prophylaxis trials have focused on determining (a) the percentage of cases prevented and (b) the effect of widespread antibiotic use on drug ...
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Risk Factors for High Early Mortality in Patients on Antiretroviral Treatment in a Rural District of Malawi. [PDF]
, 2006 OBJECTIVES: Among adults started on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in a rural district hospital (a) to determine the cumulative proportion of deaths that occur within 3 and 6 months of starting ART, and (b) to identify risk factors that may be associated
Anthony D Harries +24 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 ...
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Highlights from the 24th conference on retroviruses and opportunistic infections, 13-16 February 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA [PDF]
, 2017 From the 13th to 16th February 2017, researchers from around the world convened for the 24th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
Bhagani, Sanjay +12 more
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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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Loss of correlation between HIV viral load and CD4+ T-cell counts in HIV/HTLV-1 co-infection in treatment naive Mozambican patients [PDF]
, 2009 Seven hundred and four HIV-1/2-positive, antiretroviral therapy (ART) naïve patients were screened for HTLV-1 infection. Antibodies to HTLV-1 were found in 32/704 (4.5%) of the patients.
Augusto, O +7 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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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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Idiopathic AIDS enteropathy and treatment of gastrointestinal opportunistic pathogens. [PDF]
, 2009 Diarrhea in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has proven to be both a diagnostic and treatment challenge since the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virus more than 30 years ago.
Cello, John P, Day, Lukejohn W
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High acceptability of voluntary counselling and HIV-testing but unacceptable loss to follow up in a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme in rural Malawi: scaling-up requires a different way of acting. [PDF]
, 2005 SETTING: Thyolo District Hospital, rural Malawi. OBJECTIVES: In a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme, to determine: the acceptability of offering 'opt-out' voluntary counselling and HIV-testing (VCT); the progressive loss to
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