| recent pattern of co-infection amongst hiv seropositive individuals in tertiary care hospital, kolkata. | opportunistic infections (ois) and co-infections are the major cause of deaths amongst hiv infected individuals and this mostly depends upon the risk factors, type of exposure and geographic region. the commonest types of infections reported are tuberculosis, chronic diarrhoea, oral candidiasis, herpes simplex virus-2, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis b virus and hepatitis c virus. due to the scarcity of ois data available from this region, we had designed a study to determine the frequency of differe ... | 2011 | 21396133 |
| ophthalmic manifestations in people living with hiv attending a tertiary care centre of eastern india. | a cross-sectional study was undertaken to evaluate ophthalmic lesions in human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals in eastern part of india. one hundred and seventy-five indian patients attending one tertiary care centre in kolkata, were included in the study. ophthalmic manifestations were found in 29.14%. of them 64.70% had posterior segment lesion, 23.52% had neuro-ophthalmic lesion, 19.60% had anterior segment lesion, 15.69% had adnexal lesion. human immunodeficiency virus retinopath ... | 2008 | 18839634 |