Missing infections in AIDS.
In north America and Europe, the opportunistic infections from which patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) frequently suffer are Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare: in central Africa these infections are uncommon or non-existent. Serious infections with Entamoeba histolytica and Strongyloides stercoralis would be expected to occur in AIDS patients: they do not. Falciparum malaria might be expected to interact with HIV infection: it does not. The epidemiology and pathophysiology of these infections are discussed with respect to HIV co-infection.
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Department of Histopathology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, UK.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000350:Africa, Central; D000818:Animals; D004748:Entamoeba histolytica; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000150:complications; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000150:complications; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000150:complications