title: The impact of HIV infection on tropical diseases.
abstract: HIV and tropical infections affect each other mutually. HIV infection may alter the natural history of tropical infectious diseases, impede rapid diagnosis, or reduce the efficacy of antiparasitic treatment. Tropical infections may facilitate the transmission of HIV and accelerate progression from asymptomatic HIV infection to AIDS. This article reviews data on known interactions for malaria, leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis, Chagas' disease, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, and intestinal helminthiases.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany. gundel.harms@charite.de
authors.forename: Gundel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Harms
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feldmeier
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D014195:Travel; D014329:Tropical Climate; D014330:Tropical Medicine; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000453:epidemiology