Clinical categories

The following table referred to the different states of HIV infection.
• Category A: patients with primary infection or asymptomatic.
• Category B: patients who have or have had symptoms that do not belong to category C, that are related to HIV infection:
or bacillary angiomatosis.or vulvovaginal candidiasis, or oral candidiasis resistant to treatment.
uterine or cervical dysplasia or cervical carcinoma noninvasive.
or pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
Fever less than 38.5 ° C or diarrhea, more than one month's duration.
or herpes zoster (more than one episode or an episode with involvement of more than one dermatome.or oral hairy leukoplakia.
or peripheral neuropathy.
or idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).
• Category C: patients who have or have presented some complications included in the definition of AIDS, 1987 WHO:
or opportunistic infections:
 Bacterial infections:
 recurrent Salmonella septicemia (other than Salmonella typhy).
 Tuberculosis.
 Infection with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAI).
 Atypical Mycobacterial Infection.
 Viral Infections:
 Cytomegalovirus infection (retinitis or disseminated).
 Infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV types 1 and 2), may be chronic or as bronchitis, pneumonitis or esophagitis.
 Fungal infections:
 aspergillosis.
 Candidiasis, disseminated both as the esophagus, trachea or lungs.
 coccidioidomycosis, extrapulmonary or disseminated.
 extrapulmonary Cryptococcosis.
 Histoplasmosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary either.
 protozoal infections:
 Pneumocystis jiroveci.
 neurological Toxoplasmosis
 chronic intestinal cryptosporidiosis.
 Isosporiasis bowel disease.
• Process becomes chronic bronchitis and pneumonia.
• Processes associated directly with HIV:
or HIV-related dementia (HIV encephalopathy).or progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.or wasting or wasting syndrome syndrome.
• Processes tumor:
or Kaposi's sarcoma.or Burkitt's lymphoma.o Other non-Hogdkin lymphomas, especially immunoblastic lymphoma, primary brain lymphoma or B-cell lymphomaor invasive cervical carcinoma.