Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The first cases in Finland.
We report here on the first two patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Finland. The first patient, a 37-year-old man, had Kaposi's sarcoma and the other, a 26-year-old man, had pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii. Both patients were homosexuals and showed a marked defect in cell-mediated immunity consistent with the definition of AIDS. Both patients were found in a screening survey of homosexual men in Helsinki.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D000328:Adult; D005387:Finland; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000276:immunology; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000276:immunology