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Table 5 Brain 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

% in total autopsied brains

  

(n = 172)

Any illness

85

49.4%

Cytomegalovirus infection

45

26.1%

Malignant lymphoma

26

15.1%

HIV encephalopathy

21

12.2%

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

8

4.7%

Toxoplasmosis

8

4.7%

Non-tuberculous mycobacterium infection

4

2.3%

Aspergillus infection

2

1.2%

Varicella zoster virus infection

2

1.2%

Herpes simplex virus infection

1

0.6%

Glioblastoma

1

0.6%

Candida infection

1

0.6%

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