AIDS related opportunistic infections, going but not gone.
It is now more than two decades since the AIDS epidemic began with a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in a community of homosexual men. Since then, many other infections have been characterized as opportunistic infections secondary to HIV infection. These include, but are not limited to, infections with Toxoplasma gondii, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), and Cryptococcus neoformans. Over the last two decades, there have been dramatic improvements in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of all these infections. As a result, in North America and Western Europe the rates of opportunistic infections secondary to AIDS have decreased substantially. We will review these common opportunistic infections below.
Samuel
Rafik
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Section of Infectious Diseases, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, USA. rafiksamuel@hotmail.com
Bettiker
Robert L
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Byungse
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000188:drug therapy; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000188:drug therapy; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000188:drug therapy