Newly diagnosed HIV infection in an octogenarian: the elderly are not 'immune'.
METHODS
an 83-year-old heterosexual man with malaise tested positive for HIV infection antibodies and has responded well to triple antiretroviral therapy.


CONCLUSIONS
HIV should not be discounted on the basis of age when an elderly patient presents for the investigation of illness.
Department of Elderly Medicine and Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Geoffrey C
GC
Cloud
Rita
R
Browne
Nina
N
Salooja
Kenneth A
KA
McLean
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004739:England; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology*; D020010:Heterosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male