Volume : 7, Issue : 5, May - 2018

Study of Oppurtunistic Infections in HIV Seropositive Patients in Tertiary Care Hospital, Madhya Pradesh, India

Choudhary Sushma, Ratre Shailendra, Parashar Namita

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:&#10;inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:black">The present study was undertaken to know the prevalence of various opportunistic infections in HIV seropositive patients</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> attending the Anti Retroviral Therapy centre associated with Department of General Medicine, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur from June 2007 to July 2008. Total 75 patients were included in this study.The study included HIV patients taking ART including both males and females<span style="color:black">. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS 16.0. </span>The common opportunistic infections on presentation were oral candidiasis (25/75; 33%), pulmonary tuberculosis (21/75; 28%), herpes genitalis (4/75; 5.3%) and taenia infection (3/75; 4%). Molluscumcontagiosum (2/75; 2.6%), pneumonia (2/75; 2.6%), herpes zoster, scabies, CMV retinitis, cryptococcal meningitis, impetigo were also noted in some patients.<span style="color:black"> Since opportunistic infections are a major cause of mortality and morbidity in HIV seropositive patients, an early diagnosis and effective treatment are required to tackle them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>