Prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections and other coinfections in HIV-infected patients: May 2015.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin
; 34(8): 516.e1-516.e18, 2016 Oct.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26976381
ABSTRACT
Despite the huge advance that antiretroviral therapy represents for the prognosis of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), opportunistic infections (OIs) continue to be a cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected patients. OIs often arise because of severe immunosuppression resulting from poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy, failure of antiretroviral therapy, or unawareness of HIV infection by patients whose first clinical manifestation of AIDS is an OI. The present article updates our previous guidelines on the prevention and treatment of various OIs in HIV-infected patients, namely, infections by parasites, fungi, viruses, mycobacteria, and bacteria, as well as imported infections. The article also addresses immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Opportunistic Infections
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HIV Infections
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Guideline
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin
Journal subject:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
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MICROBIOLOGIA
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article