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Antiretrovirals
Studies conducted at Royal Perth Hospital on antiretrovirals recently published
January 27th, 2009
According to recent research from Perth, Australia, "Individuals with human immunodeficiency virus infection who commence antiretroviral therapy when they are very immunodeficient are susceptible to immune reconstitution disorders. The most common disorders are the various forms of immune restoration disease (IRD) that appear to result from the restoration of a dysregulated immune response against pathogen-specific antigens." "Essentially, any pathogen that can cause an opportunistic infection as a result of cellular immunodeficiency can provoke IRD when pathogen-specific immune responses recover during antiretroviral therapy. In resource-poor countries, Mycobacterium...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-27)
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