INTRODUCTION Oral diseases in the HIV infected children though commonly encountered are under researched and often overlooked by physicians in developing countries. The aim of this study is to document the types and frequency of oral lesions in HIV infected children and examine the effects of management with HAART on their rates. METHODS A cross sectional study designed to identify the oral l...

BACKGROUND Lichen planus is considered to be the most common dermatological disease involving the oral mucosa. OBJECTIVE To investigate the profile, clinical features, and the presence of dysplasia and candidiasis in patients with oral lichen planus. METHODS A total of 21 patients were selected from 258 patients at risk for oral cancer development. RESULTS Most of the patients were white ...

In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vazquez et al. [1] demonstrate in a well-conceived and well-conducted multicenter trial that posaconazole is equivalent in efficacy to fluconazole in the treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV-infected patients. Patients given posaconazole also experienced fewer clinical relapses of oro-pharyngeal candidiasis than did patients given fluconaz...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of the oral lesions related to HIV-infection (HIV-OL) in HIV+/AIDS adolescents (=13 years old), and the differences with HIV+/AIDS children (=3 - <13 years old) perinatally infected. MATERIAL AND METHODS 25 HIV+/AIDS adolescents and 62 HIV+/AIDS children, undergoing Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, were orally examined. HIV-OL was diagnosed in accordanc...

Senegal has a high rate of tuberculosis and a low HIV seropositivity rate and aspergilloma, life-threatening fungal infections, dermatophytosis and mycetoma have been reported in this study. All published epidemiology papers reporting fungal infection rates from Senegal were identified. Where no data existed, we used specific populations at risk and fungal infection frequencies in each to estim...