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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, Siddhi Mankame, Lawrence Ha, Pranisha Gautam-Goyal   +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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Incidence of WHO stage 3 and 4 conditions following initiation of Anti-Retroviral Therapy in resource limited settings [PDF]

, 2012
To determine the incidence of WHO clinical stage 3 and 4 conditions during early anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in resource limited settings (RLS)
A d’Arminio Monforte, A Miranda, Andrea J. Curtis, AS Walker, B Castelnuovo, B Ledergerber, Catherine S. Marshall, CE Gonzalez, Daniel P. O’Brien, DJ Sloan, DR Hoover, Esther C. Casas, J Abadi, J Mermin, Jane Greig, JE Golub, JE Kaplan, JF Etard, Julian H. Elliot, K Buchacz, Leslie Shanks, M-L Newell, Marcio Silveria Da Fonseca, NJ Ives, Philipp Du Cros, R Zachariah, SD Lawn, Sten H. Vermund, Tim Spelman, VO Kasprowicz, W Manosuthi   +30 more
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Trends in overall opportunistic illnesses, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, cerebral toxoplasmosis and Mycobacterium avium complex incidence rates over the 30 years of the HIV epidemic: a systematic review

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, Valdiléa Gonçalves Veloso, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Paula Mendes Luz   +3 more
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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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Bone marrow cytomorphological changes in patients co-infected with visceral leishmaniasis and human immunodeficiency virus

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, Romelia Pinheiro Gonçalves, Maria Helena da Silva Pitombeira   +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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Resuscitation of a patient with progressive AIDS-related opportunistic infections complicated by MODS through multidisciplinary collaboration: case report

AIDS Research and Therapy
Background Globally, AIDS-related opportunistic infections complicated by multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) are associated with high mortality and are difficult to treat.
Shaowei Huang, Xiaofeng Wei
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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
Brahmbhatt, Bulterys, Caballero-Gordo, Graham, Graham, Green, Guay, Isenalumbe, MOHP, MOHP, MOHP, MOHP, Newell, Nolan, NSO, Stringer, Sweat, Taha, Taha, UNAIDS/WHO, VCT group, Walraven, WHO, WHO/UNAIDS, World Health Organization (WHO), Zachariah, Zachariah   +26 more
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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, Leonides Rojas Barly, Reynaldo Hugo Remond Vázquez, Maira Lozano Lavernia   +3 more
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