Fever in an HIV patient
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Background
- Fever of unknown origin in this population includes temperatures >38.3ºC without diagnosis over 4 weeks (outpatient) or 3 days (inpatient) in patients with HIV, despite initial investigations including preliminary results of blood cultures at 48 hours
Differential Diagnosis
- Routine infections: pneumonia, bacteremia
- Opportunistic infections
- Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (most common cause in one US study1)
- Pneumocystis jirovecii
- CMV disease
- Tuberculosis
- Histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Non-infectious causes
References
- ^ Wendy S. Armstrong, Joel T. Katz, Powel H. Kazanjian. Human Immunodeficiency Virus‐Associated Fever of Unknown Origin: A Study of 70 Patients in the United States and Review. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 1999;28(2):341-345. doi:10.1086/515138.
