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This Web site provides interim guidance for clinicians who treat immune compromised persons, including HIV-infected adults and adolescents. The page explains that persons with low CD4 cell counts or AIDS can experience more severe complications of seasonal influenza, and possibly HIV-infected adults and adolescents are at higher risk for swine-origin influenza complications. It lists the expected clinical presentation of HIV-infected adults and adolescents with swine-origin influenza and provides recommendations for treatment and chemoprophylaxis, as well as ways to reduce risk of acquiring the infection.
Format:
Internet Electronic File
Publication Date:
2009
ID:
34430
- Physicians
- HIV and AIDS