background helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection is common among humans and plays a major role in the etiology of peptic ulcer disease with significant morbidity in patients with hiv-1 on antiretroviral therapy. there are conflicting prevalence patterns of h. pylori in hiv-1 infected patients using various methods of detection. the noninvasive technique used for detection of h. pylori infec...

toxoplasma gondii has arisen as an important opportunistic agent especially in the central nervous system and in advanced hiv disease can cause significant morbidity and mortality. this study was carried out to determine the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis among hiv-positive patients in iran. blood samples were collected from 201 hiv-positive patients and anti-toxoplasma antibodies were detecte...

background and objective: opportunistic infections are the leading cause of death among patients subjected to the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids). the aim of this study was to compare the seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus (cmv)  and toxoplasmosis infection in newly diagnosed hiv infected patients with healthy controls and it’s correlat...

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical and radiological in which patients present with an acute presentation of seizures, headache, altered mental status, cortical blindness, classic posterior cerebral edema on imagery. Patients HIV are at risk for the development this syndrome, but it rarely reported. We report case woman HIV-positive who was diagnosed PRES.

Background: Intestinal protozoa transmitted by food are the most common opportunistic parasites among the HIV+/AIDS patients. As, there is no report about prevalence of food-borne intestinal parasites in such patients in Yazd, so this study was performed to determine the prevalence of intestinal protozoa in the HIV+/AIDS patients in comparison with HIV- individuals. Methods: A case-control stu...

background: cryptosporidiumis known as an opportunist disease-causing agent in man in recent decades. it causes diarrhea and intestinal disorders in the immune deficit and immune competent individuals. this study was aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics of hiv/aids patients withcryptosporidiosisinfection. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on 53 hiv/aids ...

conclusions upon our results, tattooed people even with a small size of tattoo on the body are more at risk for hcv, hbv, and hiv infection. results among the 63 patients with tattoos (21% female, 79% male, age range:16 to 79-years-old), four patients (6.3%) tested positive for hbsag and pcr-hbv, seven patients (11%) tested positive for hcv, and five (7.9%) tested positive for hiv. the last gro...