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| Aspergillosis and HIV | |
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Aspergillosis and HIV
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Link to document(s) | http://www.hivinsite.com/In... |
Author(s): | A. Sturt,, J. A. Aberg |
Document type: | Monographs, Reports, and Book Chapters |
Language: | English, Russian |
Original language of document: | English |
Primary area(s) of focus: | HIV/AIDS |
Secondary areas of focus: | Opportunistic infections (OIs) |
Submited by: | Victor Stanilevskiy |
Date of entry: | June 24, 2006 |
Pages: | 14 |
| Exposure to Aspergillus is universal, but aspergillosis is uncommon unless drugs, infection, or malignancy have altered the host immune defenses. The disease usually occurs in transplant recipients or in patients with hematologic malignancies, when phagocytic host defenses by granulocytes and macrophages are quantitatively or functionally suppressed. | |
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