What is it about?
Opportunistic infections (OIs) cause substantial morbidity on patients with HIV infection. Out of 418 study participants 219 (52.4%) of them had OIs. The most common OIs were Tuberculosis (TB) (13.2%), followed by Recurrent Upper Respiratory tract infection (URTI) (8%) and Herpes Zoster (7.2%).
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Why is it important?
It is important to recognize that there are strong relationship between OIs and HIV infection. HIV causes the immune-suppression that allows opportunistic pathogens to cause disease in HIV-infected persons.
Perspectives
This article showed the prevalence of OIs among ART naive HIV patients in context of a developing country.
Zerihun Ataro
Haramaya University
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This page is a summary of: Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Opportunistic Infections among Anti-Retro Viral Treatment Naive HIV/AIDS Infected Patients, Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research, January 2018, OMICS Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.1000763.
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