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Human immunodeficiency virus exanthem

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1990
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exanthem can be the primary manifestation of HIV infection. We report three cases of an exanthematous skin eruption associated with acute HIV infection. HIV antigen (p24 core antigen) was present, whereas results of the HIV antibody test were negative.
Hulsebosch, H. J., Claessen, F. A., van Ginkel, C. J., Kuiters, G. R., Goudsmit, J., Lange, J. M.   +5 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus and menopause

Menopause, 2013
This article aims to review currently available evidence for women infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and menopause and to propose clinical management algorithms.Key studies addressing HIV and menopause have been reviewed, specifically age of menopause onset in HIV-infected women, frequency of menopausal symptoms, comorbidities associated
Rupa, Kanapathipillai, Martha, Hickey, Michelle, Giles   +2 more
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Screening for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1991
AbstractScreening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies as a means of preventing both the progress and spread of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is problematic in terms of efficacy, effectiveness, and ethics. The few desired effects are mostly offset by greater and more certain undesirable effects on individuals and society.
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Update on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses, 2013
At the end of 2011, UNAIDS estimated that 34 million (31.4 to 35.9) individuals were infected by HIV worldwide and that 2.5 million were newly infected during the year. Since 2001, we have observed an increased number of HIV-infected patients in the world, due to an expanded access to antiretroviral drugs.
F, Brun-Vézinet, C, Charpentier
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Human immunodeficiency virus in the parturient

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 2003
Over the last 20 years, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has grown from a small case series of Pneumocystis carinii infection in four homosexual men to one of the major health problems facing the world today. In the next 5 years, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is expected to kill more than 2.2 million people.
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Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

New England Journal of Medicine, 1987
THE likely routes of transmission of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were established before an etiologic agent was identified. The appearance of AIDS in disparate populations, connected only by probable routes of transmission, was among the initial pieces of evidence suggesting an infectious cause. First described among homosexual men in
G H, Friedland, R S, Klein
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccines

1993
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the progress in the development of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine. It focuses principally on HIV, ranging from the properties of the virus that are most relevant for vaccine development to experimental trials of candidate HIV vaccines in chimpanzees and in humans.
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Lung

1998
The primary function of the immune system is to maintain the integrity of the host by eliminating microbial infringements without clinical sequelae. The lung has the capacity to initiate and regulate immune responses against microbial invasion and neoplastic transformation.
AGOSTINI, CARLO, Sancetta R., SEMENZATO, GIANPIETRO CARLO   +2 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, 1990
T W, Price, S G, DeMars, D L, Palmer, M I, Altman, J W, Moore   +4 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus and pregnancy

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 2003
The recent spread of HIV infection into the heterosexual population in the United States, Europe, and Australia, as well as its earlier heterosexual presence in the developing world, has led to increased scientific and clinical attention to the role of HIV infection in pregnancy.
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