Research Article
Histopathological Changes of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands in HIV-Infected Patients
Table 5
Frequency of opportunistic infections in HIV infected individuals.
| Number of
opportunistic
infections | Patients with
normal thyroid glands
(%) | Patients with
abnormal thyroid glands
(%) |
| | 0 | 30 (33.7%) | 1 (7.7%) | | 1 | 27 (30.3%) | 6 (46.1%) | | 2 | 21 (23.5%) | 4 (30.7%) | | 3 | 7 (7.8%) | 2 (15.3%) | | 4 | 2 (2.2%) | 0 | | 5 | 1 (1.1%) | 0 | | 1 (1.1%) | 0 |
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MAC, cytomegalovirus, Cryptococcus, Candida, Pneumocystis jiroveci, and Herpes.
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