Gastrointestinal manifestations of HIV infection

The harrowing picture of emaciated terminally ill AIDS patients is a reminder of our lack of understanding of immunological mechanisms that normally control opportunistic infections. Many gastrointestinal pathogens in patients with AIDS are resistant to treatment and lead inexorably to weight loss a...

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Autores principales: Sharpstone, D, Gazzard, B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 1996
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8709738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(96)01034-3
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description The harrowing picture of emaciated terminally ill AIDS patients is a reminder of our lack of understanding of immunological mechanisms that normally control opportunistic infections. Many gastrointestinal pathogens in patients with AIDS are resistant to treatment and lead inexorably to weight loss and death. Although knowledge of the pathogenesis and clinical significance of weight loss has improved considerably, this has not yet led to a sustained effort to improve nutritional status during early stages of disease.
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spelling pubmed-71245652020-04-08 Gastrointestinal manifestations of HIV infection Sharpstone, D Gazzard, B Lancet Article The harrowing picture of emaciated terminally ill AIDS patients is a reminder of our lack of understanding of immunological mechanisms that normally control opportunistic infections. Many gastrointestinal pathogens in patients with AIDS are resistant to treatment and lead inexorably to weight loss and death. Although knowledge of the pathogenesis and clinical significance of weight loss has improved considerably, this has not yet led to a sustained effort to improve nutritional status during early stages of disease. Elsevier Ltd. 1996-08-10 1997-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7124565/ /pubmed/8709738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(96)01034-3 Text en Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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