Monday, April 14, 2008

AIDS-defining conditions without laboratory evidence of HIV


• Diseases diagnosed definitively

• Candidiasis: oesophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs

• Cryptococcosis: extrapulmonary

• Cryptosporidiosis with diarrhoea persisting >1 month

• Cytomegalovirus disease other than in liver, spleen, nodes

• Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection

• mucocutaneous ulceration lasting >1 month

• pulmonary, oesophageal involvement

• Kaposi’s sarcoma in patient <60>
• Primary cerebral lymphoma in patient <60>
• Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia in child <13>
• Mycobacterium avium: disseminated

• Mycobacterium kansasii: disseminated

• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

• Cerebral toxoplasmosis