Opportunistic Infections

Infections Occur Frequently in Treated HIV Positive Patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 10th, 1996

Opportunistic infections frequently occur in HIV positive patients who receive antiretroviral treatment, according to Dr. Dianne M. Finkelstein of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and colleagues.

Finkelstein examined the pattern of opportunistic infections in a cohort of more than 1,500 HIV positive patients who received antiretroviral monotherapy (JAIDS & Human Retroviruses 1996;12:38-45). The subjects were enrolled in one of two AIDS Clinical Trials group anti-retroviral studies.

Over a median observation period of 65 weeks, she found that 36.1 percent of the patients developed one or more opportunistic infections. Pneumocystis carinii...

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