Etiology and treatment of opportunist infections in AIDS

Abstract

The abnormal regulation of immunity in patients with AIDS cause incapability to control infections. We report the main pathogenic agents that produce these opportunist nfections and the diagnostic methods, that generally are quite invasive, and the speciíic treatment, both prophylactic and therapeutic. The interest of the present review is based on the difficulty of the differential diagnosis, due to the clinical similarity and on the persistence of infections because of the appearance of resistances to the drugs and also because of the high rate of reinfections. KEY WORDSA: IS. O P P O R ~ IISNFTEC -
TIONS. ANTIBIOTICASN. TIFLINGAL DRUGS.