We report two cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), apparently without the usual exposure factors, in whom a temporal association was detected after detailed epidemiological investigation. The index case, a 45 year old housewife, had provided terminal home-nursing care for a 33 year old African man, who died from an undiagnosed encephalitis. At that time she had fissures of the s...

Sin ce 1981 the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (A IDS) has beco me the primary health care issue in this nation. Psychiatrists ha ve had a central role in caring for A IDS patients: they have been asked to evaluate and treat patie nt s with neuropsychiatric manifestations of AIDS and emot iona l react ions to the illn ess itself, as well as to treat those who are fearful of acquiri ng A ID...

The ineffective immune response in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) contributes to severe and widespread infections and unrestricted growth by certain tumors. To determine whether monocyte dysfunction contributes to this immunosuppressed condition, we investigated monocyte chemotaxis in patients with AIDS. Using three different chemotactic stimuli, N-formylmethionyll...

From the Field Services Division, Epidemiology Program Office, and the AIDS Activity, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia. This work was presented in part at the symposium ‘Controversies in the Management of Infectious Complications of Neoplastic Disease,” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, March 17 and 18, 1983. Requests for re...

BACKGROUND This brief report aims to report a case of bilateral macular ischemia as a cause of sudden decreased vision in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). FINDINGS A 26-year-old male with disseminated cryptococcal meningitis, Candida thrush, Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, and positive human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection with CD4 count of 4 cells/μl complai...

The subtypes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) group M exhibit a remarkable similarity in their between-subtype distances, which we refer to as high synchrony. The shape of the phylogenetic tree of these subtypes is referred to as a sunburst to distinguish it from a simple star phylogeny. Neither a sunburst pattern nor a comparable degree of symmetry is seen in a natural process su...

The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) of the common chimpanzee is widely acknowledged as the direct ancestor of HIV-1. There is increasing historical evidence that during the late 1950s, kidneys were routinely excised from central African chimpanzees by scientists who were collaborating with the polio vaccine research of Dr Hilary Koprowski, and sent - inter alia - to vaccine-making laborator...

A longitudinal study was performed with sera and urine of patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), taken before, during and after clinically Toxoplasma infection. The tested patients were followed for an average of two years. The titres of the specific IgG and IgM antibodies were measured by an indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), and the appearance of circulating antigen...

A 21-year-old male with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, not on highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) was admitted after complaining of headache and intermittent diarrhea, found to have Cryptococcal meningitis. During the course of his hospitalization, patient developed pancytopenia. Anemia panel, serologies including Epstein barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and parvovirus were negativ...

PURPOSE To investigate the occurrence of hearing loss in individuals with HIV/AIDS and their characterization regarding type and degree. RESEARCH STRATEGY It was conducted a systematic review of the literature found on the electronic databases PubMed, EMBASE, ADOLEC, IBECS, Web of Science, Scopus, Lilacs and SciELO. SELECTION CRITERIA The search strategy was directed by a specific question:...