title: Managing HIV. Part 3: Mechanisms of disease. 3.3 How HIV leads to opportunistic infections.
abstract: HIV-related immune deficiency differs from that due to other causes in its severity and inexorably progressive nature. It leads to multiple opportunistic infections in patients with advanced HIV infection, mostly with common endogenous and environmental organisms that usually pose little threat to human health.
authors.affiliation: AIDS Pathogenesis Research Unit, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Crowe
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Kornbluth
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000276:immunology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000276:immunology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral