Prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections and other coinfections in HIV-infected patients: May 2015

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Abstract

Despite the huge advance that antiretroviral therapy represents for the prognosis of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), opportunistic infections (OIs) continue to be a cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected patients. OIs often arise because of severe immunosuppression resulting from poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy, failure of antiretroviral therapy, or unawareness of HIV infection by patients whose first clinical manifestation of AIDS is an OI. The present article updates our previous guidelines on the prevention and treatment of various OIs in HIV-infected patients, namely, infections by parasites, fungi, viruses, mycobacteria, and bacteria, as well as imported infections. The article also addresses immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)516.e1-516.e18
JournalEnfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica
Volume34
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2016

Keywords

  • AIDS
  • HIV infection
  • Opportunistic infections

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Microbiology (medical)
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Microbiology

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