Managing HIV. Part 3: Mechanisms of disease. 3.3 How HIV leads to opportunistic infections.
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Abstract
HIV-related immune deficiency differs from that due to other causes in its severity and inexorably progressive nature. It leads to multiple opportunistic infections in patients with advanced HIV infection, mostly with common endogenous and environmental organisms that usually pose little threat to human health.