...Olga V. Azovtseva; Elena A. Viktorova Introduction: In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of systemic fungal infections among HIV-infected individuals. The article aimed to examine the frequency of invasive mycoses among the HIV-infected patients at the time of their urgent...

...Gianni Marone; Gilda Varricchi; Stefania Loffredo; Maria Rosaria Galdiero; Felice Rivellese; Amato de Paulis The World Health Organization AIDS epidemic update estimates that more than 37 million people are living with HIV infection. Despite the unprecedented success of antiretroviral treatments...

...Daniela Gallerano; Clarissa R. Cabauatan; Elopy N. Sibanda; Rudolf Valenta HIV infections represent a major global health threat, affecting more than 35 million individuals worldwide. High infection rates and problems associated with lifelong antiretroviral treatment emphasize the need...

...Esperanza Feijoó; Dolores Subirá; Manuel Fernández-Guerrero; Rosa García; Fernando Ortíz Levels of circulating immune complexes (CIC) measured by precipitation with 1.04 M ammonium sulfate ranged from 22 to 2,040 µg/ml in a group of 141 HIV-infected patients. CIC were elevated (> 200 µg/ml...

... and comprised all those who attended the AIDS Out-Patient Clinic at the University Hospital in Innsbruck in March and April 1992. Patients with signs and symptoms of acute bacterial and secondary opportunistic infections were excluded. We investigated 63 individuals with HIV infection of whom 35 were...

...P. Marschang; C.F. Ebenbichler; M.P. Dierich HIV, in contrast to animal retroviruses, is not lysed by human serum but nevertheless the virus as well as virus-infected cells activate the complement system efficiently. HIV activates the classical pathway by binding C1q to the transmembrane protein...

... immunity to optimize the pathogen-specific humoral and cellular defence cascade in the body. One of the greatest challenges for the complement system is infection by HIV with its chronic course and sequential destruction of immune cells and immune organs. Due to its dual role as direct effector and as fine...

...Robert Zangerle; Sabine Steinhuber; Mario Sarcletti; Manfred P. Dierich; Helmut Wachter; Dietmar Fuchs; Johannes Möst We assessed the value of HIV–1 RNA level compared to soluble immune activation markers, namely neopterin, β 2 –microglobulin and soluble TNF receptor 75 (sTNFR–75), to predict...