Aids to Tropical Medicine

Aids to Tropical Medicine

Acute bacterial infections and HIV disease.

Some acute bacterial infections, notably those caused by the pneumococcus and the non-typhi salmonellae, have not traditionally been considered as leading diseases in tropical medicine, despite their ubiquitous distribution and impact on health. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is forcing a re-evaluation of this position because of their importance in immunosuppressed adults, particularly where exposure i...

Risk Factors for Hepatotoxicity in HIV-1–Infected Patients Receiving Ritonavir and Saquinavir with or without Stavudine

E. H. Gisolf, C. Dreezen, S. A. Danner, J. L. F. Weel, and G. J. Weverling, for the Prometheus Study Group National AIDS Therapy Evaluation Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Department of Internal Medicine, and Departments of Clinical Virology/Medical Microbiology and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Am...

Hospitalizations and its related factors in HIV/AIDS patients in Tehran, Iran

  Background: HIV/AIDS patients are mainly hospitalized for HIV-related diseases and opportunistic infections. Thisstudy was performed todetermine thecauses ofhospitalization and its related factors in HIV/AIDS patients in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital during 2009-2012.   Methods: Thisstudy wasa descriptive cross-sectionalstudy . HIV patients admitted to the Imam Khomeini Hospital were includ...

Erratum to: Rapid urine-based screening for tuberculosis to reduce AIDS-related mortality in hospitalized patients in Africa (the STAMP trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Author details Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Program, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Dignit...