Abstract

Questions: 1. What are this patient’s most striking clinical and laboratory findings? 2. How do you explain this patient’s most striking clinical and laboratory findings? 3. What is this patient’s most likely diagnosis? 4. What are the common laboratory methods for establishing HIV infection? 5. What laboratory and clinical findings define this patient’s disease? 6. What factors can cause a false negative HIV antibody test? 7. What is the “window period” for HIV antibody detection? 8. What is a useful diagnostic algorithm for laboratory screening for HIV infection? 9. What laboratory test(s) should be used to follow known HIV positive patients? 10. At what CD4 level are patients tested and/or treated prophylactically for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)?

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