The substantial decline in the Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) incidence in HIV-
infected patients after the introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-rich settings …

Organising pneumonia is defined histopathologically by intra-alveolar buds of granulation
tissue, consisting of intermixed myofibroblasts and connective tissue. Although nonspecific …

This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for the prevention and
treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected adults (ie, persons aged> 18 years) …

Suppression of HIV replication by highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) often restores
protective pathogen-specific immune responses, but in some patients the restored immune …

The immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in HIV-infected patients initiating
antiretroviral therapy (ART) results from restored immunity to specific infectious or non …

Pneumocystis is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes an often-lethal pneumonia in
immunocompromised hosts. Although the organism was discovered in the early 1900s, the …

Background: Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in association with
cryptococcosis has been anecdotically reported following administration of highly active …

Summary The National Institutes of Health, the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious
Diseases Society of America, and CDC have developed guidelines for treatment of …

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation in HIV-infected patients leads to recovery of CD4+ T
cell numbers and restoration of protective immune responses against a wide variety of …

Host immunity is essential in facilitating the eradication of infection. However, immunological
recovery and an imbalance characterised by either suboptimum or excessive expression of …