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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: Antivir Ther. 2007;12(4):543–551.

Table 1.

Opportunistic diseases considered for the current analysis

Opportunistic disease
Preventable with cotrimoxazole
Severe Bacterial Infections
 Pneumonia
 Bacterial enteritis
 Isolated bacteremia
 Invasive urogenital infection
Malaria
Toxoplasmic encephalitis
Isosporosis
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
Not preventable with cotrimoxazole
Severe Fungal Infections
 Extra-pulmonary cryptococcal infection
 Esophageal candidiasis
Tuberculosis
Non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis
 Mycobacterium avium complex bacteremia
Other Severe Illnesses
 Other WHO clinical stage 3 defining events
 Other WHO clinical stage 4 defining events