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3 days ago · Clinicalinfo welcomes your feedback on the latest revisions to the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Children with and Exposed to HIV. Please send your comments with the subject line “Pediatric Opportunistic Infections Guidelines” to HIVinfo@NIH.gov by July 24, 2024.
4 days ago · The Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and others have updated guidelines for prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected adults and adolescents.
6 days ago · An opportunistic infection is an infection caused by harmful infectious agents, or pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites or protozoa), that usually do not cause disease in a healthy person, i.e. one with an immune system whose function is not impaired.
16 hours ago · It felt as if we were putting Band-Aids on a hemorrhage. We had drugs that treated the opportunistic infections, but no sooner was one infection treated than others appeared that were ultimately ...
4 days ago · Cryptococcal meningitis is a potentially deadly infection of the protective lining of the brain and spinal cord (the meninges) caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans ( C. neoformans ). It is mainly seen in immunocompromised people, especially those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or AIDS (HIV/AIDS).
1 day ago · Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections; March 3–6, 2024 (abstr 1231). Google Scholar The urine tenofovir test is expected to be cost-effective as an adherence intervention for PrEP given that current methods to provide feedback on drug concentrations are much more expensive, as are other resource-intensive interventions.
2 days ago · ICYMI: 2022 EULAR Recommendations on Screening & Prophylaxis for Opportunistic Infections. Save. Jul 04, 2024 9:00 am. By downloading this material, I acknowledge that it may be used only for personal use and personal education and that I will accredit RheumNow.com as the source and owner of this material. Commercial use or mass reproduction of ...
