| the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. a report on the second international conference on aids. | although there have been significant gains in knowledge about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) since the 1st international conference on aids in 1985 and some reason for hope that the epidemic can be controlled in developed countries, reports presented to the 2nd conference (1986) indicated that aids will be a more formidable challenge than was originally recognized. there remains disagreement about the name and taxonomy responsible for the aids virus. specifically, montagnier and lev ... | 1986 | 3490811 |
| acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with severe gastrointestinal manifestations in haiti. | 29 patients (19 males and 10 females) in haiti were diagnosed as having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. their clinical presentation was characterised by unexplained chronic diarrhoea, prolonged fever, extreme weight loss, anorexia, and severe infections. the infectious agents included: candida albicans (27 patients), mycobacterium tuberculosis (7 patients), cryptosporidium (11 patients), pneumocystis carinii (2 patients), cytomegalovirus (4 patients), and herpes virus (3 patients). in 1 woma ... | 1983 | 6137696 |
| opportunistic infections and kaposi's sarcoma among haitians: evidence of a new acquired immunodeficiency state. | twenty haitian patients, hospitalized from 1 april 1980 to 20 june 1982, had pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, central nervous system toxoplasmosis, esophageal candidiasis, cryptococcosis, disseminated cytomegalovirus, progressive herpes simplex virus, chronic enteric coccidiosis, or invasive kaposi's sarcoma. ten patients died. opportunistic infections were frequently multiple and were recurrent in three patients. in seven patients disseminated tuberculosis preceded the other infections by 2 to 1 ... | 1983 | 6299151 |
| epidemiology of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). | this review of the epidemiology of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) focuses on the aids virus, immunology, clinical manifestations, surveillance, epidemiologic studies, and prevention. although no treatment has been able to reverse the immunodeficiency characteristic of aids, epidemiologic studies have identified the routes of transmission of this virus and thus suggest strategies for prevention. the number of reported cases of aids in the us is increasing rapidly. the 1st 1000 cases ... | 1985 | 3902491 |
| [acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). an update after 4 years]. | at the end of december 1984, 8246 aids cases had been reported in the united states, and 762 cases in europe. the main risk groups are homosexual and bisexual men (73%), heterosexual i.v. drug addicts (17%) and haitians (4%). aids is diagnosed in patients meeting the clinical criteria of the cdc surveillance definition (opportunistic infections and/or kaposi's sarcoma). the prevalence of htlv-iii antibodies in risk groups is high, its prognostic significance still controversial. laboratory metho ... | 1985 | 2988117 |
| apparent transmission of human t-cell leukemia virus type iii to a heterosexual woman with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. | a 24-year-old woman developed the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with lymphadenopathy, oral candidiasis, and kaposi's sarcoma. her only known risk factor for the syndrome was sexual contact with an asymptomatic haitian man. the woman had serologic evidence for infection with human t-cell lymphotropic virus type iii, and this virus was recovered from the saliva of her sexual partner. epidemiologic and virologic studies of the cases of such patients provide further evidence of a primary pathog ... | 1985 | 2981497 |
| aids in the caribbean. | the incidence of hiv infections in the caribbean, derived from official reports and selected studies, is assessed. aids has been reported in all countries except british virgin islands and montserrat (excluding bermuda and puerto rico). cuba is the only country with a national survey: 147 cases out of 1 million were reported seropositive. expressed by prevalence, aids is highest in the bahamas (229/100,000), french guiana (84.0), ranges between 17.5 and 16.0 in barbados, trinidad/tobago, gua ... | 1988 | 12315930 |
| antibodies to human herpesvirus 8 in women and infants born in haiti and the usa. | 146 hiv-1-positive pregnant women and 143 matched hiv-1-uninfected pregnant women participated in a study to assess the association of human herpes virus 8 (hhv8) and the development of kaposi's sarcoma. 98 of the 189 evaluable infants born to the women were born to hiv-1-positive mothers; 26 of these 98 infants were infected with hiv-1. maternal serum samples were available for all but 18. the sera were diluted and screened for antibodies to the hhv8 latency-associated nuclear antigens (lana ... | 1997 | 9149705 |
| aids in haitian immigrants and in a caucasian woman closely associated with haitians. | in montreal the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) was seen in eight haitian immigrants and one caucasian woman who had lived with haitian immigrants for 3 years before the onset of her illness. aids was characterized by opportunistic infections alone in seven patients, by opportunistic infection and kaposi's sarcoma in one patient and by chronic generalized lymphadenopathy in one patient. five of the patients had presented with mycobacterium tuberculosis infections 1 to 12 months before ... | 1983 | 6640458 |
| unusual causes of death in haitians residing in miami. high prevalence of opportunistic infections. | twenty-one (100%) haitians and 42 (21.5%) of 192 native black americans autopsied in a 33-month period at jackson memorial hospital, miami, were included in this review. all autopsied materials were examined. among the haitians autopsied, infectious diseases accounted for 11 (52%) of 21 deaths. toxoplasma encephalitis was the leading cause of death (five cases). other infectious causes of death included disseminated cryptococcosis (one), disseminated cytomegalovirus diseases (one), pneumocystis ... | 1983 | 6348327 |