background: diagnosis and management of malnutrition in hiv- infected children is important as it is both a manifestation as well as an independent risk factor for death. extent in hilly poor outreach areas of north india has been poorly studied.  aim: to study the prevalence of malnutrition among children with hiv/aids using who z- score and indian academy of pediatrics (iap) method and effect...

cryptococcus neoformans is the most incriminated fungal pathogen causing meningitis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) patients, and is known to constitute a major cause of deaths in aids patients. this study aimed to determine the sero-prevalence and effect of cd4 count on seropositivity for cryptococcus neoformans antigen (crag) in antiretroviral- naïve (art-naïve) aids patients. t...

  Introduction : The decreased level of immunity in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patients increases their vulnerability to various opportunistic fungal infections. Oral candidiasis has been found to be the most common fungal infection among HIV infected patients. The present study was conducted to evaluate the spectrum of various opportunistic fungal infections and their correlat...

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...

OBJECTIVES Counts of absolute CD4+ T lymphocytes (CD4+ T cells) are known to be highly variable in untreated HIV-infected individuals, but there are no data in virologically-suppressed individuals. We investigated CD4+ T cell variability in stable, virologically-suppressed, HIV-1 infected adults on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). METHODS From a large hospital database we selected p...

background and objective: candidiasis is a common opportunistic infection in hiv-infected patients. the spectrum of candida infection is diverse, starting from asymptomatic colonization to pathogenicforms. the low absolute cd4+ t-lymphocyte count has traditionally been cited as the greatest risk factor for the development of oropharyngeal candidiasis and current guidelines suggest increased ris...