title: [HIV window period. Acute retroviral syndrome].
abstract: A 24-year-old man with no significant medical history was admitted to this hospital because of an acute exanthema, myalgia and malaise. A fourth-generation screening test for HIV was reactive but the following confirmation test was not. Although the patient did not belong to a high risk group, we decided to perform a HIV-RNA-PCR. The result showed a high virus load so that we finally diagnosed a primary HIV infection.
authors.affiliation: Johannes Wesling Klinikum Minden, Dermatologie, Hans-Nolte-Straße 1, 32429, Minden, Deutschland, rstranzenbach@gmail.com.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stranzenbach
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stadler
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D017193:Skin Diseases, Viral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology*; D013577:Syndrome