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3.3 How HIV leads to opportunistic infections
Author(s) -
Crowe Suzanne M,
Kornbluth Richard S
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb122019.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , opportunistic infection , immune system , immunology , medicine , intensive care medicine , biology , viral disease
HIV‐related immune deficiency differs from that due to other causes in its severity and inexorably progressive nature. It leads to multiple opportunistic infections in patients with advanced HIV infection, mostly with common endogenous and environmental organisms that usually pose little threat to human health.