Session A: natural history of HIV disease and predictors of clinical outcome
Article Abstract:
Large, automated, multipurpose population-based databases (LAMPS) are extremely useful to HIV researchers and physicians in the study of the development, progression, treatment, and clinical outcomes of HIV infection. Large databases of clinical data from both HIV-infected patients and HIV-negative high-risk people, such as gay men and intravenous drug users, provides information about seroconversion, the development of antibodies to HIV after exposure to the virus. LAMPS also provide data to guide diagnostic laboratory testing and antiviral drug therapy.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1077-9450
Year: 1998
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The Western Australian HIV Cohort Study, Perth, Australia
Article Abstract:
The Western Australian HIV Cohort Study of 1,052 HIV patients and those at high risk for infection has identified important clinical measures of disease progression and treatment effects. The study researchers proposed that HIV infection begins with a loss of mucosal immunity, manifesting as oral candida infection, seborrheic dermatitis, and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. The second stage, in which systemic immunity is compromised, is marked by the development of opportunistic cytomegalovirus and Mycobacterium avian infections.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1077-9450
Year: 1998
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