Tropical infectious diseases in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients.
Tropical infectious diseases in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients.
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人类免疫缺陷病毒感染患者的热带传染病。
DOI:
10.1086/514745
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发表时间:
1999
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Franklin A. Neva
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作者:
Christopher L. Karp;Franklin A. Neva
Distinguishing ‘‘tropical’’ from other infectious diseases has ease [1]. Such effects are presumed to be primarily the result of immunosuppression. In AIDS, abnormalities are found in its artificial side. The Anglo-American specialty of tropical diseases historically focused on parasites and arboviruses. A list of every compartment of the immune system, although defects in cell-mediated immunity appear to be of greatest clinical import. the current top four pathogens in terms of annual mortality in the tropics includes only one of these, Plasmodium falciparum, in The immune systems of HIV-infected individuals may be further compromised by profound nutritional derangements (e.g., the quite cosmopolitan company of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, HIV, and measles virus. Yet, although most resources devoted slim disease), therapeutic interventions (e.g., corticosteroid therapy), or the immunologic abnormalities associated with to HIV research have been allocated to the elucidation of the manifestations of HIV-related disease in industrialized countries, coinfection (e.g., visceral leishmaniasis). the ravages of the HIV epidemic have fallen most heavily on Of the ú100 agents known to cause opportunistic infection those resource-poor parts of the world where diseases traditionin the presence of HIV, several are classic tropical pathogens ally considered ‘‘tropical’’ continue to hold sway. An unfortunate [2]. These are mostly found among the intracellular protozoa, result of this has been a relative neglect of the effects of coinfecbacteria, and endemic fungi; there is a marked absence of tion with HIV and traditional tropical pathogens. The current metazoans. Coinfection with HIV has comparatively subtle efoverview focuses on the intersection of HIV and pathogens from fects on the course of disease with other tropical pathogens. all phyla that cause disease of markedly greater incidence in No alterations have been found in the natural history of many the tropics, except in cases (e.g., M. tuberculosis) where high tropical infections. With the latter infections, the current lack prevalence outside of the tropics has led to considerable published of evidence for significant effects of HIV coinfection on the experience and research. As with all coinfecting pathogens, there expression of disease or response to treatment is not necessarily is considerable biological and clinical complexity in the interacstrong evidence for the absence of such effects. Where coinfection of agents of tropical disease and HIV. Either pathogen has tion with HIV and endemic tropical diseases is marked by low the potential for altering the natural history, immune response, prevalence, subtlety of interaction, diagnostic difficulty, or low or response to therapy of the other [1]. research priority, the presence and significance of interactions are likely to be missed. Overall, the clinical expression of AIDS in resource-poor areas Effects of HIV on the Expression of Tropical Diseases of the tropics appears to involve a different opportunistic-infecInfection with HIV can influence the natural history of infection spectrum than that in North America and Europe. Instead tion with other pathogens through (1) facilitating infection, (2) of the high incidence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) increasing the ratio of disease to infection, (3) changing the and disseminated disease due to Mycobacterium avium complex presentation of disease, or (4) exacerbating the course of dis(MAC) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) found in the resource-rich North, the clinical expression of AIDS in much of the tropics has been marked by frequent tuberculosis (the most common, serious AIDS-related opportunistic infection in the world at Publication of this State-of-the-Art Clinical Article has been made possible by an educational grant from Roche Laboratories. large), chronic diarrhea, wasting (slim disease), chronic fever Received 2 December 1998. without an obvious source, and pulmonary disease [3, 4]. The Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Christopher L. Karp, Division of Infectious contribution of tropical pathogens to these latter syndromes is Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1830 East Monument Street, Room 455, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (ckarp@welchlink. unclear. With inadequate infrastructures, limited financial rewelch.jhu.edu). sources, and difficult access to medical care on the part of the Clinical Infectious Diseases 1999;28:947–65 socially disadvantaged, surveillance is likely to be sporadic and q 1999 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. 1058–4838/99/2805–0001$03.00 to involve mainly the sampling of subgroups of AIDS patients
DOI:
10.4269/ajtmh.1993.48.666
发表时间:
1993
期刊:
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
影响因子:
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作者:
Squires,KE;Rosenkaimer,F;Sherwood,JA;Forni,AL;Were,JB;Murray,HW
通讯作者:
Murray,HW