ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME IN CHILDREN: OUTCOME FOLLOWING ASSISTED VENTILATION

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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Epidemiology of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Children in Kinshasa, Zaire

The first case of pediatric AIDS from Zaire was verified on 13 December 1983 (1). This was an 11 year old girl who was admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Mama Yemo Hospital, with severe weightloss, chronic diarrhea, mycotic dermatitis, oral moniliasis and bronchopneumonia. She had previously received six blood transfusions. Between December 1983 and March 1984 two more cases of symtomati...

intestinal leishmaniasis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

\s=b\Pneumocystis carinii antigen and IgG antibody profiles were prepared on 17 pediatric patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with pneumonia who were examined by a variety of invasive methods for P carinii organisms. Overall, the accuracy of the antigen assay in invasively examined pediatric patients with AIDS with pneumonia was 94% (sensitivity, 100%; specificity, 90%), as ...

[Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome--AIDS].