Table 1.

Patient clinical details

patient	sexa	Age at death	ADC stageb	Viral load/ml plasma	Viral load/ml CSF	ART	Non-HIVE neuropathology	Duration from seropositive for HIV to death(year)	Postmortem interval (h)
A	F	44	L	2.96 × 105	7.6 × 105	AZT, DDI		6	15
B	M	3	L	3.6 × 105	1 × 106	AZT, DDI,		3/4	No record
C	M	48	N	8.2 × 105	2 × 103	No record	CMV ventriculitis and encephalitis	1/2	20
D	M	41	N	2.9 × 105	3.3 × 104	No record	Cerebral B cell lymphoma	No record	53
E	M	64	N	2 × 104	1 × 103	AZT, Mycelex, Clotrimazole	Malignant lymphoma	6	21
F	M	44	N	N/A	N/A		Spongiform myelopathy of spinal cord	7	46.5

^a M, male; F, female

^b L, late stage of dementia; N, without dementia; N/A = not available