Infectious Disease · Infectious disease / Viral infections
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
also: AIDS; HIV infection stage 3
Advanced HIV infection with severe CD4 T-cell depletion.
- Specialty
- Infectious Disease
- Subspecialty
- Infectious disease / Viral infections
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, rising proportion; Children: yes, vertical transmission
- Gene(s) involved
- CCR2, CCR5, HLA-B*35, HLA-B*57, TRIM5
- Alternative names & eponyms
- AIDS; HIV infection stage 3
Etiology & mechanism
HIV-1 infection destroying CD4 cells.
Gene(s) involved (5)
Symptoms & signs (7)
In plain terms, someone with Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
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Shares symptoms with
3 shared
Castleman syndrome
fever, lymphadenopathy, night sweats
2 shared
Blind loop syndrome
diarrhea, weight loss
2 shared
Cronkhite–Canada syndrome
diarrhea, weight loss
2 shared
DRESS syndrome
fever, lymphadenopathy
2 shared
Glucagonoma syndrome
diarrhea, weight loss
2 shared
Middle East respiratory syndrome
diarrhea, fever
2 shared
Omenn syndrome
diarrhea, lymphadenopathy
2 shared
Richter syndrome
fever, weight loss
2 shared
Schnitzler syndrome
fever, lymphadenopathy
2 shared
Stauffer syndrome
fever, weight loss
Shares genes with
None.
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