Acute HIV-infection: report of a case and a review of recent developments.
A patient is reported with a typical acute HIV-infection. He presented with an infectious mononucleosis-like illness, which included fever, malaise, sore throat, myalgia, swollen glands and a rash. Seroconversion, documented by serial immunoblotting, occurred within a period of four days. If a patient with a glandular fever-like illness belongs to one of the risk groups, an acute HIV-infection should be seriously considered. In a recent study an association was found between the clinical course of acute HIV-infection and the subsequent course. Treatment of asymptomatic HIV-infected patients is discouraged, except if included in a clinical trial.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Hospital Dijkzigt, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Kroes
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van der Ende
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male