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Table 4 Lung disease in patients infected with HIV

From: The prevalence of opportunistic infections and malignancies in autopsied patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection in Japan

Illness

n

% of total patients

  

(n = 225)

Any illness

173

76.9%

Cytomegalovirus infection

93

41.3%

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia

66

29.3%

Any bacterial pneumonia

31

13.8%

Aspergillus infection

23

10.2%

Kaposi sarcoma

21

9.3%

Non-tuberculous mycobacterium infection

14

6.2%

Cryptococcosis

11

4.9%

Candida infection

10

4.4%

Tuberculosis

4

1.8%

  1. Because more than one illness was detected in patients, the numbers of all illness are greater than the total number.
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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