title: A focus on two major health problems in the Indian subcontinent.
abstract: Every 2 years, Professor Sarman Singh organizes the International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens, which is held in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. International experts in the field of opportunistic infections in AIDS patients and transplant recipients are invited to share their experience with their Indian colleagues. In this article, two presentations are summarized. The focus on those presentations is not necessarily because they convey new information (most of the data are available on the WHO website or in the literature), but rather because this information is still highly relevant today and because, in the opinion of the author, it is very important to heighten readers' awareness of these major health problems in the Indian subcontinent.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, EA 3174-NETEC, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges, 87025, France. ajz@unilim.fr
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ajzenberg
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D055815:Young Adult