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4. There are immunodeficiency syndromes not associated with HIV

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 7, 2014, 04:48 AM

Oct 2014

I remember that much from my lab fellowship. Particularly among IV drug users and hemopheliacs, and this caused some errors in diagnosis that were only corrected in the late 1990s. (It doesn't help that the side effects of ARVs more or less mimic the symptoms of AIDS.) Coke fiends will have their immune system collapse quite on its own, without the bug. Hemopheliacs who get frequent transfusions will too (this made actually tracing the blood transfusion transmissions devilishly hard).

I was mostly just curious about the history of the usage.

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AIDS vs HIV-AIDS [View all] Recursion Oct 2014 OP

HIV positive means you've been exposed to the virus and are making antibodies against it. Warpy Oct 2014 #1

There are immunodeficiency syndromes not associated with HIV Recursion Oct 2014 #4

A lot of the clinical literature (papers and such)... Spider Jerusalem Oct 2014 #2

Thank you. I should have thought of Google Scholar Recursion Oct 2014 #3