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Article: PCP prevalence dropping, but other OIs on the rise. (pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, opportunistic infections)
- Article from:
- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Although pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is by far the most common AIDS-defining illness, its prevalence as a first opportunistic infection indicator dropped from 61% in 1985 to 42% in 1992. In the same period, cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis doubled, from 2.6% to 5.2%.
Those are some of the most recent HIV epidemiological data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, presented at the Second National Conference on Retroviruses and Related Infections in Washington, DC, in January
"Presumably, this reflects institutions' use of PCP prophylaxis in HIV-positive persons with low CD4 counts," reported Harold Jaffe, MD, director of the ...