Friday, March 2, 2012

AIDS-defining conditions with laboratory evidence of HIV

Diseases diagnosed definitively
• Recurrent/multiple bacterial infections in child <13 years of age
• Coccidiomycosis – disseminated
• HIV encephalopathy
• Histoplasmosis – disseminated
• Isosporiasis with diarrhoea persisting >1 month
• Kaposi’s sarcoma at any age
• Primary cerebral lymphoma at any age
• Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: diffuse, undifferentiated B cell type, or unknown phenotype
• Any disseminated mycobacterial disease other than M. tuberculosis
• Mycobacterial tuberculosis at any site
• Salmonella septicaemia: recurrent
• HIV wasting syndrome
• Recurrent pneumonia within 1 year
• Invasive cervical cancer
• Diseases diagnosed presumptively
• Candidiasis: oesophagus
• Cytomegalovirus retinitis with visual loss
• Kaposi’s sarcoma
• Mycobacterial disease (acid-fast bacilli; species not identified by culture): disseminated
• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
• Cerebral toxoplasmosis

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