"Natural History of HIV Disease in Children with Less Than 100 CD4 Lymphocytes."

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the 35th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology, held September 17-20, 1995, in San Francisco, California, "Objectives: To describe the natural history of HIV disease in children after CD4 cells decay to less than 100/cu mm (<100) and identify markers which predict future progression of disease. Methods: Retrospective chart review of children followed in a pediatric HIV clinic over a 6 yr period with CD4 <100. Results: 19 of 65(29%) HIV infected children were found to have CD4 <100. Median age of achieving CD4 <100 in 19...

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