ArticleCureus2024
Prevalence of Opportunistic Infections in Treatment-Naive HIV Patients in a Secondary Care Center.
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- Seroprevalence and Early Indicators of HBV and HCV Co-infection Among Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study from India.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Resuscitation of a patient with progressive AIDS-related opportunistic infections complicated by MODS through multidisciplinary collaboration: case report.AIDS research and therapy · 2026Article
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Abstract
Introduction HIV-related immunosuppression significantly increases the risk of contracting opportunistic infections (OI) due to bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. This study estimates the prevalence of opportunistic infections in HIV patients who have not received previous antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the second-largest hospital in Honduras. Methods This retrospective observational study analyzed the medical records of the treatment-naive HIV patients who attended the Mario Catarino Rivas National Hospital in Honduras in all of 2023. The data collected was on demographics and clinically or laboratorially diagnosed opportunistic infections of 110 patients. Results The overall prevalence of OIs among the 110 treatment-naive HIV patients was 31 (28.2%). The most frequent OIs were: cryptococcosis 9/31 (29.0%), candidiasis 8/31 (25.8%), tuberculosis 6/31 (19.4%), toxoplasmosis 4/31 (12.9%), pneumocystis 3/31 (9.7%), and histoplasmosis 2/31 (6.5%). Most patients with at least one OI had a viral load >100,000 copies/mL and a CD4+ cell count <200 cells/mm
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