hiv patient with non healing lesions on leg. WHich organisms is most likely the cause?
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staph. aureus. a ubiquitous bacteria which can cause pus lesions
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Could be both fungus and stain.  Arcrylic nails harbor all sorts of germs.  Nurses in some hospitals are banded from wearing them.\nConsult with your doctor.  You don't want to go around spreading disease.
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The symptoms of AIDS are primarily the result of conditions that do not normally develop in individuals with healthy immune systems. Most of these conditions are infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that are normally controlled by the elements of the immune system that HIV damages. Opportunistic infections are common in people with AIDS [18]. Nearly every organ system is affected. People with AIDS also have an increased risk of developing various cancers such as Kaposi sarcoma, cervical cancer and cancers of the immune system known as lymphomas.\n\nAdditionally, people with AIDS often have systemic symptoms of infection like fevers, sweats (particularly at night), swollen glands, chills, weakness, and weight loss [19][20]. After the diagnosis of AIDS is made, the current average survival time with antiretroviral therapy is estimated to be now more than 5 years [21], but because new treatments continue to be developed and because HIV continues to evolve resistance to treatments, estimates of survival time are likely to continue to change. Without antiretroviral therapy, progression to death normally occurs within a year [8]. Most patients die from opportunistic infections or malignancies associated with the progressive failure of the immune system [22].\n\nThe rate of clinical disease progression varies widely between individuals and has been shown to be affected by many factors such as host susceptibility [9][10][13], health care and co-infections [8][22], and peculiarities of the viral strain [15][23][24]. Also, the specific opportunistic infections that AIDS patients develop depends in part on the prevalence of these infections in the geographic area in which the patient lives.
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Hi buddy,\n\nThe HIV virus is a very fragile virus that gets easily killed on drying or contact with ordinary toilet soap or even very dilute spirit.The world wide fear of this infection is not because it gets easily transmitted or that its a tough virus to kill.Its just because the virus attacks the patient's immune system. Death in an HIV infected person comes in the form of other diseases that attack the person when his body's defence mechanisms are in a weak state.\n Human saliva is not demonstrated by research to contain enough load of virus as to cause infection to another person ingesting it. There is a theoretical possibility of the virus getting transmitted thru deep kissing, if the kisser has a mouth ulcer. The virus in that case has a (very small) chance to enter the body of the individual thru this open wound in the mouth. Still the virus may not survive the variable pH levels and salt concentrations of the human saliva.   And all the more, the probability of this type of  transmission is less than 0.01% . In day to day life that kind of probability is considered as ZERO chance...!  Hence we, healthcare workers don't consider saliva as a potential source of infection. Like wise, the chance of a mosquito transmitting the virus is somewhere near 0.004%..!!\n\nRegarding Web sources on AIDS, the United Nations' website is the ultimate knowledge bank ... Log on to www.unaids.org and find a wealth of info and links.\nAll the best.\nBye.
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i think human diseases r interesting. besides that, how bout healing properties of some tradisional herbs/plants? i'm currently working on pathogenic bacteria. maybe u can try to look into pathogens too? since pathogen like SARS, avian influenza and HIV are emerging problems for mankind... most importantly, which area r u interested?
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There really is no specific age group for this serious condition. It is easily transmitted by blood or other bodily fluids. There is treatment but no cure. Emergency medical workers fear this as much as HIV.
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there is no such thing as a "knee virus".  was your sone just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.  \n\nThere are theories that a viral infection can preceed the onset of type 1 diabetes - but there is no "knee virus" out there.  You could have diabetes, and have some viral synovitis, or inflamation of the knee joint -
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No. HIV (the virus causing AIDS) is very vulnerable. It needs to live in a moist environment. 2 hours out in the air, it dies. If you're really worried, use some good antiseptic soap to wash the jeans, hang it out to dry, or take it to the dry cleaners.
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They are two separate STDs. Talk to your doctor about this. Having genital warts is not a sign of HIV.
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An infection maybe...
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I'm surprised that you wouldn't know, with the news and media coverage in the past 15 years or so.\nIt is contracted by the exchange of body fluids from an infected person.\nUnprotected sex, sharing a drug needle, contact between open sores (herpes, cold sores) are the most common ways to contract HIV.
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In 1981, homosexual men with symptoms of a disease that now are considered typical of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were first described in Los Angeles and New York. The men had an unusual type of lung infection (pneumonia) called Pneumocystis carinii (now known as Pneumocystis jiroveci) pneumonia (PCP) and rare skin tumors called Kaposi's sarcoma. The patients were noted to have severe depression of a type of cell in the blood that is an important part of the immune system, called CD4 cells. These cells, often referred to as T cells, help the body fight infections. Shortly thereafter, this disease was recognized throughout the United States, Western Europe, and Africa. In 1983, researchers in the United States and France described the virus that causes AIDS, now known as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and belonging to the group of viruses called retroviruses. In 1985, a blood test became available that measures antibodies to HIV that are the body's immune response to the HIV. This blood test remains the best method for diagnosing HIV infection. Recently, tests have become available to look for these same antibodies in the saliva and urine, and some can provide results within 20 minutes of testing.
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Is this a real question?  You should see a doctor who specializes in HIV care.\n\nMost people who are HIV+ are either treated or have not progressed to AIDS.  AIDS is the condition of having a compromised immune system.  Many HIV+ people would be at similar risk (compared to an uninfected person) if exposed to MRSA.\n\nMost agressive bacterial infections need to be treated in healthy persons, it is only more difficult for those with AIDS\n\nBTW, MRSA can be communicated easily without sex.
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Both typhoid and jaundice are treatable diseases nowadays. In the case of a HIV infected  person, his/her recovery would entirely depend on how far the HIV infection has already progressed in such person. For example, both diseases would life treating and possibly fatal even with treatment if the person's immune system is already collapsed (Aids). \n\nThat's My Best Answer!
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I did a lil' research for you & came up with this...Hope it helps:\n\nThe only way to know if you are infected is to be tested for HIV infection. You cannot rely on symptoms to know whether or not you are infected. Many people who are infected with HIV do not have any symptoms at all for many years.\n\nThe following may be warning signs of HIV infection: \n\nrapid weight loss \ndry cough \nrecurring fever or profuse night sweats \nprofound and unexplained fatigue \nswollen lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck \ndiarrhea that lasts for more than a week \nwhite spots or unusual blemishes on the tongue, in the mouth, or in the throat \npneumonia \nred, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids \nmemory loss, depression, and other neurological disorders
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Ther are no statistics for the number of people infected with MRSA.\nMRSA is treated with IV antibiotics- Vancomycin and is totally treatable. I was surprised to find that some other countries do not use vancomycin ie: England, therefor people are needlessly dying from this infection.\nIt will not turn into HIV. It isnt a virus.\nMany health care proffesionals are infected with the bacteria and dont even know it because it is colonized, meaning the bacteria is present but causing no symptoms or illness.
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arthritis\n\nI'm posititve\nKaposi's sarcoma is a cancer that causes purple lesions on the skin--most often in men with AIDS\nTuberculosis, pneumonia, and yeast infections are known as opportunistic infections--infections that healthy individuals can usually fight off, but those who are immuno-compromised have a difficult time fighting these infections.