Syndrome de deficience immunitaire acquise, infections opportunistes et homosexualite. Presentation de 3 cas observes en Suisse. [Acquired immunologic deficiency syndrome, opportunistic infections and homosexuality. Presentation of 3 cases studied in Switzerland]

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serval:BIB_1B5B7B5D6CAF
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Case report (case report): feedback on an observation with a short commentary.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Syndrome de deficience immunitaire acquise, infections opportunistes et homosexualite. Presentation de 3 cas observes en Suisse. [Acquired immunologic deficiency syndrome, opportunistic infections and homosexuality. Presentation of 3 cases studied in Switzerland]
Journal
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift
Author(s)
Francioli  P., Vogt  M., Schadelin  J., Clement  F., Russi  E., Delacretaz  F., Perret  C., Glauser  M. P.
ISSN
0036-7672 (Print)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
11/1982
Volume
112
Number
47
Pages
1682-7
Notes
Case Reports
English Abstract
Journal Article --- Old month value: Nov 20
Abstract
Three cases of multiple opportunistic infections in previously healthy homosexual males were observed in 3 different University Hospitals in Switzerland. Two of the patients died. Infections were multiple, with P. carinii pneumonia (3 cases), chronic mucocutaneous ulcers probably due to Herpes simplex virus (2 cases), mucosal candidiasis (2 cases) and disseminated infections due to cytomegalovirus (1 case) and Mycobacterium avium (1 case). All patients had depressed cellular immunity with marked lymphopenia. These cases are similar to those recently observed in the United States, but two of the patients had never been to the USA although both had vacationed in Haiti where the syndrome has been described. These patients illustrate that this new syndrome should also be suspected outside the USA when a patient (especially a male homosexual) presents with persistent fever of unknown origin and develops opportunistic infections without obvious underlying disease.
Keywords
Adult Brain Diseases/etiology Candidiasis/etiology Cytomegalovirus Infections/etiology Herpes Simplex/etiology *Homosexuality Humans Hypersensitivity, Delayed/immunology Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes/*complications Lymphopenia/etiology Male Middle Aged Pneumonia, Pneumocystis/etiology Switzerland Toxoplasmosis/etiology
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Web of science
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