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Opportunistic diseases which can affect AIDS patient

Write down the major opportunistic diseases which can affect AIDS patients?

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Among the opportunistic diseases that influence HIV infected people throughout the AIDS stage some are: mucocu-taneous and systemic candidacies, Kaposi’s sarcoma (blood vessel tumors which result in darkened spots on skin and internal organs), tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus infection, and pneumonia by fungus P. Carinii (pneumocystis pneumonia), toxoplamosis, herpes, and so forth.

Some other opportunistic diseases are: histoplasmosis, salmonellosis, aspergillosis, cryptococcosis, lymphomas, and isosporiasis.

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