CDC surveillance Case Definition for AIDS

In the diagnosis of the following diseases AIDS is assumed, even if the HIV status is not known. This concerns patients without other underlying immunodeficiencies.

• Candidiasis of oesophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs

• Extrapulmonary cryptococcosis

• Chronic cryptosporidiosis (> 1 month)

• CMV infection of any organ, except liver, spleen or lymph nodes, when this has been present > 1 month.

• Herpes simplex infection with chronic (> 1 month) affection of mucocutaneous membranes, lungs or oesophagus.

• Kaposi's sarcoma in persons under 60 years old.

• Primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma in persons under 60 years old.

• Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) and/or pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia in children <>

• Disseminated Mycobacterium avium or M. kansasii

• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (JC virus)

• Toxoplasmosis of the brain in persons over one month old.

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