Fever in HIV-infected patients KU Leuven
Fever in HIV-infected patients
Background
Fever was a frequent sign of disease in HIV-patients in the era before the availability of antiretroviral therapy (Sepkowitz, Arch Intern Med 1993). In the natural course of HIV-infection fever can occur at initial acquisition of the virus(as part of a primo-infection), until the terminal AIDS-stage (caused by opportunistic infections, by medication prescribed as prevention or treatment of ...