Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Early symptomatic HIV infection is a stage of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus when symptoms are present but
See also:
Acute HIV infection Asymptomatic HIV infection HIV infection
Alternative Names
AIDS-related complex - ARC; Chronic symptomatic HIV infection
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Early symptomatic HIV infection has signs and symptoms typical of
At this early stage of HIV infection, the person does not have signs or symptoms of AIDS such as opportunistic infections, certain cancers, or a CD4 count of less than 200.
Risk factors for HIV infection are:
- Being born to an HIV-positive mother
- Receiving a blood transfusion or blood components
- Injection drug use
- Sexual contact with an infected partner in which there is an exchange of semen or vaginal fluids
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Review Date: 12/01/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in
Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division
of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts
General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
