title: [Concomitant symptom syndrome of primary HIV infection].
abstract: A primary HIV infection presenting as an acute viral syndrome in 31-years-old male drug addict is described. Two weeks after the probable infection the patient presented with fever, sweats, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhoea, myalgia, arthralgia, headaches, macular eruption, generalized lymphadenopathy, paresthesia and thrombocytopenia. These symptoms lasted 7 weeks. The immune abnormalities included an increase of CD8+ lymphocyte percentage resulting in decrease od CD4/CD8 ratio. HIV antigenemia was found 4 weeks after the presumed exposure whereas anti-HIV became detectable 2 weeks later.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Immunopatologii, Instytut Chorób Zakaźnych i Pasozytniczych Akademii Medycznej, Warszawie.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radkowski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mian
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laskus
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kamińska
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D016516:CD4-CD8 Ratio; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Zespół objawów towarzyszacych pierwotnemu zakazeniu HIV.