PREVIEW

Pediatric HIV Infection: Clinical Manifestation

January 1, 2003
Authors: Mark Kline
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine

This is a three part description of some of the main features of HIV infection in children from a medical perspective. This second part explains that the severity of HIV in children is determined by two factors – symptoms and age-adjusted CD4 count. It also describes the common opportunistic infections which occur in children with HIV in the United States.