persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) are particularly susceptible to tuberculosis, either by latent infection reactivation or by a primary infection with rapid progression to active disease. this study was done to determine the frequency of tuberculosis infection among iranian patients with hiv/aids. a total of 262 hiv/aids patients attending all three hiv/aids health ca...

background it is estimated that survival of children with perinatally transmitted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) in brazil is around 60 months, and an upward trend has been shown over recent years. the reduction in mortality rates in brazilian children is mainly attributed to the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy. objectives the aim of this study was to characterize the epidemi...

Many questions have been posed about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pathogenesis. Is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) both necessary and sufficient to cause AIDS? Is AIDS essentially an autoimmune disease, triggering apoptosis, or is virus infection the cause of T helper lymphocyte depletion? What is the significance of HIV tropism and the role of macrophages and dendritic cells in...

A cell system was developed for the reproducible detection of human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV family) from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or with signs or symptoms that frequently precede AIDS (pre-AIDS). The cells are specific clones from a permissive human neoplastic T-cell line. Some of the clones permanently grow and continuously produce large amounts of...

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and its cause, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), are significant public health concerns. By the end of 2005, there were 40 million people infected with HIV, 5 million new cases, and 3 million deaths from AIDS worldwide [6]. HIV attacks the CD4 white blood cells, damaging the immune system. As the virus depletes the patients CD4 count, the immune ...

To date, none of the vaccines that have been developed to prevent AIDS have proven to be sufficiently effective, despite the human immunodeficiency virus itself having been used as a vector as well as viral fragments, and genetic material from the virus itself and that the vaccines available have been administered with different adjuvants, including cytokines. This paper presents the hypothesis...

This is the first in a series of four continuing education articles on AIDS patient management and care. This article is designed to present an overview of complications due to the AIDS virus and the use of nuclear medicine techniques to assist in patient management. Upon completion of this article the technologist will be able to: I) identify complications due to the AIDS virus,· 2) recognize ...

aim : since data about prevalence of jc virus in iranian population is scarce, this study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of jc virus in healthy individuals who had attended fajr hospital and farjam clinical laboratory in tehran, iran. background : jc virus is the causative agent of progressive multifocal encephalopathy (pml) in individuals with suppressed immune system. there are some ...

A 1987 New York Times editorial noted that the refusal of physicians and dentists to treat patients infected with the AIDS virus is the most painful symptom produced by the fear of AIDS. 3 An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) echoed this concern. 4 C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General of the United States, admitted that he is getting more reports of health care...