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- AIDS refers to the condition
in which the patient develops any of 23 designated opportunistic
infections:
- Candidiasis (esophagus, trachea, bronchial tube, and lungs)
- Cryptococcosis (except for lungs)
- Pneumocystis pneumonia
- Coccidioidomycosis (1. the whole body dissemination;
2. occurrences in the areas other than lungs, cervix, and hilar lymph
nodes)
- Histoplasmosis (1. the whole body dissemination;
2. occurrences in the areas other than lungs, cervix, and hilar lymph
nodes)
- Cryptosporidiosis (when diarrhea accompanies for
the duration of a month or longer)
- Cerebral toxoplasmosis (except for infants aged less than a month)
- Isosporosis (when diarrhea accompanies for the
duration of a month or longer)
- Atypical mycobacteriosis (1. the whole body dissemination
2. occurrences in the areas other than lungs, skin, cervix and, hilar
lymph nodes)
- Purulent bacterial infections (two or more repeated
occurrences of any of the following diseases due to purulent bacteria
i.e., Haemophilus
or Streptococcus: 1. septemia 2. pneumonia 3. meningitis 4. osteoarthritis)
within two years in patients younger than 13
- Active tuberculosis (pulmonary or extrapulmonary tuberculosis)
- Salmonella bacillemia (relapsing; expect the
ones caused by salmonella typhi)
- Cytomegalovirus infections (except for an infant
aged less than a month, and also except the one caused in the liver,
spleen and lymph
nodes)
- Herpes simplex virus infections (1. lasts over
a month or longer on mucous membrane 2. skin ulcerations 3. accompanied
by bronchitis, pneumonia,
and esophagitis, but except for infants aged less than a month)
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Primary CNS lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (based on LSG classifications;
1. large cell immunoblastic 2. Burkitt type),
- Invasive cervical cancer
- Repetitive pneumonia
- Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia/pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia (LIP/PLH
complex, under 13 years old)
- HIV encephalopathy (dementia or subacute encephalitis)
- HIV marasmic syndrome (whole body weakness or slim disease)
 

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