This profile of Medicare beneficiaries with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was developed by applying a casefinding algorithm to virtually all Medicare claims from 1991-93. The algorithm identified more than 37,000 beneficiaries with AIDS, approximately 21,000 of whom were living at the end of 1993. These estimates suggest that as many as 12 percent of people living with AIDS at the e...

Citation: Abed S, Tubsuwan A, Chaichompoo P, Park IH, Pailleret A, Benyoucef A, Tosca L, De Dreuzy E, Paulard A, Granger-Locatelli M, Relouzat F, Prost S, Tachdjian G, Fucharoen S, Daley GQ, Payen E, Chrétien S, Leboulch P, and Maouche-Chrétien L. Transplantation of Macaca cynomolgus iPS-derived hematopoietic cells in NSG immunodeficient mice. Haematologica. 2015; 100:xxx doi:10.3324/haematol.2...

Since the first description in 1989 of CD4-Fc-fusion antagonists that inhibit human immune deficiency virus entry into T cells, Fc-fusion proteins have been intensely investigated for their effectiveness to curb a range of pathologies, with several notable recent successes coming to market. These promising outcomes have stimulated the development of novel approaches to improve their efficacy an...

The classification of diseases has several important applications ranging from diagnosis and choice of treatment to demographics. To date, classifications have been successfully created manually, often within international consortia. Some groups of diseases, such as primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs), are especially hard to nosologically cluster due, on one hand, to the presence of a wide variet...

The initial effort of the Brazilian Ministry of Health to be an active partner in the world effort in the preparation of future accurate human immune deficiency virus (HIV) efficacy trials was the establishment of a multi-centered cohort of homosexual and bisexual men. An open cohort was established to determine the HIV incidence and the socio-behavioral aspects involved in Rio de Janeiro. A to...

The effect of probiotics in systemic health is well documented. There are several advantages using of probiotics , but in some persons it carries the risk of causing bacteremia and sepsis. Probiotic treatment is adviced for the prevention and treatment of a number of diseases, and there is strong evidence for their efficacy. Probiotics are now widely used in many countries . Because of the incr...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a worldwide epidemic, with over 42 million people currently infected. Since the discovery of HIV as the causative agent of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), many potential vaccines have been created. The first of these vaccines presented disappointing results; however, that has not deterred researchers from continuing to develop more...

Two cases of community-acquired septicemia caused by serotype-O1 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis were diagnosed in middle-aged, HIV-positive, immunodeficient patients during an 8-month period. Bacterial isolates were genetically indistinguishable, but no epidemiologic link between the 2 patients was established. HIV-related immunosuppression should be regarded as a risk factor for Y. pseudotubercul...

We report the cases of one patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome as a result of human immunodeficiency virus type 1/lymphadenopathy associated virus type 1/human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type III (HIV-1/LAV-1/HTLV-III) infection and of another patient with AIDS related complex caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 2/lymphadenopathy associated virus type 2 (HIV-2/LAV-2) inf...