"Patterns of Opportunistic Infections in Patients with HIV Infection."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology, "The pattern of the development of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected patients was evaluated, based on a cohort of 1.530 patients enrolled in two AIDS Clinical Trials Group anti-retroviral studies. We quantified the increase in risk of OIs associated with the occurrence of a previous OI. This assessment was based on the observed event rates of the more common AIDS-defining OIs: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and a systemic mycosis. Additionally, for each OI, we...

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