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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-18
pubmed:abstractText
Despite initial claims to the contrary, a cluster of reports of severe opportunistic infections occurring in patients without evidence of HIV infection do not appear to represent a new disease entity or present evidence of epidemiologically associated cases suggesting an infectious agent. Reported cases are reviewed and appear to represent a heterogeneous group, many of which may represent sporadic cases of late onset acquired immunodeficiency. In addition, a small group of asymptomatic subjects have been identified with constitutively low CD4 T cell populations which appear to have little or no clinical significance since these patients have no evidence of clinical immunodeficiency. Newly identified cases should be fully investigated immunologically and virologically after recovery from their presenting infection and continuous or prophylactic therapy instituted only in cases of substantiated long-term severe immunodeficiency.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0305-7453
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37 Suppl B
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
171-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Non-HIV AIDS: nature and strategies for its management.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Immunology, Churchil Hospital, Oxford, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review