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Disseminate and fatal cytomegalovirus disease with thymitis in a naive HIV-patient after early initiation of HAART: immune restoration disease?

Gutiérrez S, Alconchel S, Ruiz-Mateos E, Genebat M, Vallejo A, Lissen E, Fernández-Alonso J, Leal M

Department of Internal Medicine, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital, Seville, Spain.

We describe a naive HIV-infected patient who developed a Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and disseminate and fatal cytomegalovirus disease within 3 months after initiation of HAART, suggesting due to coincidence in time, an immune restoration disease. We propose an alternative hypothesis.

Published 17 April 2006 in J Clin Virol, 36(1): 13-6.
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