AIDS-Defining Illnesses at Initial Diagnosis of HIV in a Large Guatemalan Cohort | Zendy

Samuel W. Reinhardt | Zendy; Andrej Spec | Zendy; Johanna Meléndez | Zendy; Andrea Alonzo Cordon | Zendy; Ian R. Ross | Zendy; William G. Powderly | Zendy; Carlos Mejia Villatoro | Zendy

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AIDS-Defining Illnesses at Initial Diagnosis of HIV in a Large Guatemalan Cohort

Author(s) -

Samuel W. Reinhardt,

Andrej Spec,

Johanna Meléndez,

Andrea Alonzo Cordon,

Ian R. Ross,

William G. Powderly,

Carlos Mejia Villatoro

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofx249

Subject(s) - medicine , histoplasmosis , cohort , esophageal candidiasis , wasting , epidemiology , tuberculosis , aids related opportunistic infections , retrospective cohort study , pneumocystosis , cohort study , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pediatrics , pneumocystis jirovecii , sida , pneumonia , immunology , viral disease , pneumocystis carinii , pathology

In this large Guatemalan cohort of patients currently living with HIV, a significant portion presented with an ADI. These data inform the most common ADIs diagnosed among survivors, show that histoplasmosis is more commonly diagnosed in rural patients, and suggest that HIV wasting syndrome may reflect missed histoplasmosis diagnoses.

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