| AIDS is the advanced stage of HIV
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| | pneumonia) is a common cause of death in
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| infection. The criteria of AIDS include
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| | AIDS.Tuberculosis (TB) in AIDS is often
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| HIV infection with fewer than 200 CD4
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| | multi-drug resistant. Tuberculosis in
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| positive T cells per cubic millimeter of
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| | AIDS may affect bone marrow, bone,
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| blood (norm is more than 1,000), and two
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| | kidney, bladder, guts, liver, lymph
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| dozens of opportunistic infections, which
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| | nodes, brain and spine. It is also more
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| rarely affect normal people.
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| | severe in lungs than usual.Oesophagitis
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| Opportunistic means that the infection
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| | (inflammation of esophagus) is common.
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| took opportunity of the weakened immune
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| | Chronic diarrhea in HIV infection is
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| system. AIDS-related infections are often
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| | caused by Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria,
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| very severe and caused by unusual
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| | Campylobacter Escherichia coli,
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| bacteria, viruses, fungi, and
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| | parasites, which happen in normal
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| parasites.Symptoms of AIDS include:*
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| | people.Cryptosporidiosis,
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| Weight loss
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| | Microsporidiosis, Mycobacterium avium
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| * Energy loss
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| | complex and cytomegalovirus are rarely if
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| * Diarrhea
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| | ever seen in healthy people. However they
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| * Persistent fever
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| | are common in HIV. Diarrhea also explains
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| * Cough
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| | significant body wasting in AIDS. Neural
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| * Shortness of breath
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| | system is often affected by parasite
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| * Seizures
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| | Toxoplasma gondii. It infects brain, eyes
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| * Painful swallowing
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| | and lungs.JC virus causes progressive
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| * Confusion
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| | multifocal leukoencephalopathy that leads
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| * Forgetfulness
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| | to destruction of brain cell connections.
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| * Vision problems
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| | It happens only in severely weakened
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| * Persistent headaches
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| | immune deficiency. HIV Infected brain
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| * Children have severe forms of
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| | macrophages produce neurotoxins that lead
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| typically childhood infections of eyes,
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| | to dementia and
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| ears and throat.AIDS patients often
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| | encephalopathy.Cryptococcus is an
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| develop Kaposi's sarcoma (round brown,
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| | opportunistic parasite that causes
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| reddish, or purple blots on skin) and
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| | meningitis (inflammation of brain
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| cervical cancer (in women).Lymphoma is
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| | covering tissue). Fevers, headache,
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| also a common condition. Kaposi's
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| | fatigue, vomiting, seizures and confusion
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| sarcoma-associated herpes virus, human
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| | often develop.Citomegalovirus may cause
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| papillomavirus and Epstein -Barr virus
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| | colitis (bowel inflammation) and
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| are the causative agents. Without
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| | retinitis (an eye layer inflammation)
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| antiretroviral therapy, AIDS patent die
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| | that leads to blindness. Penicillium
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| in a year commonly.Antiretroviral therapy
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| | fungi also cause opportunistic infections
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| gives more than 5 years of live. PCP
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| | especially in Asia.Aleksandr Kavokin, MD,
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| (Pneumocystis carinii (jiroveci)
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| | PhD.
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