Fungal Infections
Summary
- Invasive aspergillosis, most frequently caused by A fumigatus, is rare in patients with HIV[Herbrecht 2002]
- Risk factors include neutropenia, use of corticosteroids, broad-spectrum antibacterial therapy, and previous pneumonia, especially P jiroveci pneumonia
- Typically, patients have extremely low CD4+ cell counts (< 50 cells/mm3), a history of other AIDS-defining opportunistic infections and are not receiving ART[Holding 2000]
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