Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report

Opportunistic fungal infections account for a significant amount of morbidity associated with HIV disease. Candidiasis is the most common oral opportunistic infection affecting people with HIV infection or AIDS. It is considered as an important marker of immune suppression and may be the initial man...

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Autores principales: Shetti, Arvind, Gupta, Ishita, Charantimath, Shivyogi M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/929616
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description Opportunistic fungal infections account for a significant amount of morbidity associated with HIV disease. Candidiasis is the most common oral opportunistic infection affecting people with HIV infection or AIDS. It is considered as an important marker of immune suppression and may be the initial manifestation of the disease in about 10% of HIV-infected adults. We report a case of an apparently healthy 45-year-old male with oral candidiasis which proved to be the first indicator of HIV infection.
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spelling pubmed-33357212012-05-07 Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report Shetti, Arvind Gupta, Ishita Charantimath, Shivyogi M. Case Rep Dent Case Report Opportunistic fungal infections account for a significant amount of morbidity associated with HIV disease. Candidiasis is the most common oral opportunistic infection affecting people with HIV infection or AIDS. It is considered as an important marker of immune suppression and may be the initial manifestation of the disease in about 10% of HIV-infected adults. We report a case of an apparently healthy 45-year-old male with oral candidiasis which proved to be the first indicator of HIV infection. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3335721/ /pubmed/22567448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/929616 Text en Copyright © 2011 Arvind Shetti et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report
title Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report
title_full Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report
title_fullStr Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report
title_short Oral Candidiasis: Aiding in the Diagnosis of HIV—A Case Report
title_sort oral candidiasis: aiding in the diagnosis of hiv—a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/929616
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