Neurologic involvement in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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Pulmonary involvement in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

M ore than 50 percent ofpatients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have involvement of the lungs.’ The defects in cell-mediated immunity that characterize AIDS predispose to a variety of pulmonary infections caused by pathogens that by and large are considered to be opportunistic.2 Chiefamong these is Pneumocystis carinii followed by Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, cytomega...

intestinal leishmaniasis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

[The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)].

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

\s=b\Pneumocystis carinii antigen and IgG antibody profiles were prepared on 17 pediatric patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with pneumonia who were examined by a variety of invasive methods for P carinii organisms. Overall, the accuracy of the antigen assay in invasively examined pediatric patients with AIDS with pneumonia was 94% (sensitivity, 100%; specificity, 90%), as ...