Opportunistic infections in patients with aids: Clues to the epidemiology of aids and the relative virulence of pathogens

Abstract

The frequency of nine reactivating or opportunistic infections and Kaposi’s sarcoma among patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reviewed. The diagnoses of 87 patients reported from the Colorado AIDS registry and 359 others from literature reports were abstracted, and data were placed in one of 11 categories on the basis of the risk group of the patient. Pneumocystis carinii infection was significantly commoner among blood or blood-product recipients than among natives of the tropics (P