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. 2010 Oct-Dec;2(4):300–306. doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.72129

Table 1.

Commonly occurring opportunistic infections in HIV/AIDS patients

Disease Infectious organism
Pneumonia Pneumocystis carinii
Pneumonia Pneumocystis jiroveci
Kaposi’s sarcoma Kaposi’s sarcoma virus (KSV)
Tuberculosis Mycobacterium avium
Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Cryptococcal meningitis Cryptococcus neoformans
Toxoplasmic encephalitis Toxoplasma gondii
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy J C Virus (JCV)
Cytomegalovirus encephalitis Cytomegalovirus (CMV)