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| Silva,Marcio de Oliveira; Bastos,Milena; Martins Netto,Eduardo; Gouvea,Nancy Alves de Lima; Torres,Alex Jose Leite; Kallas,Esper; Watkins,David I; Altfeld,Marcus; Brites,Carlos. |
| Acute HIV infection is rarely recognized as the signs and symptoms are normally unspecific and can persist for days or weeks. The normal HIV course is characterized by a progressive loss of CD4+ cells, which normally leads to severe immunodeficiency after a variable time interval. The mean time from initial infection to development of clinical AIDS is approximately 8-10 years, but it is variable among individuals and depends on a complex interaction between virus and host. Here we describe an extraordinary case of a man who developed Pneumocisits jiroveci pneumonia within one month after sexual exposure to HIV-1, and then presented with 3 consecutive CD4 counts bellow 200 cells/mm³ within 3 months, with no other opportunistic disease. Although... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: HIV; Acute infection; Progression; AIDS. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000300016 |
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