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. 2021 May 7;6:174. doi: 10.1038/s41392-021-00550-2

Table 2.

AAIT improved clinical events and symptoms in the treated 12 patients

Patient Symptoms before AAIT Clinical response
after AAIT treatment
AIDS-related events
at enrollment
Systemic constitutional symptoms at enrollment
01-W

Pneumonia

Sepsis

Crysptosporidiosis

EBV infection

Wasting syndrome

+++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

02-Z

Pneumonia

Pulmonary abscess

Colitis

EBV infection

Wasting syndrome

+++++ Pulmonary abscess significantly improved within 1 month, doing well
03-G

Pneumonia

PCP

++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

04-D

Pneumonia

CMV infection

Wasting syndrome

++++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

05-Z

Pneumonia

PCP

Oral candidiasis

++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

06-L

Pneumonia

PCP

CMV infection

EBV infection

++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

07-X

Pneumonia

PCP

Oral candidiasis

+++ Phlegmon occurs 37 days later
08-D

Pneumonia

PCP

Oral candidiasis

Wasting syndrome

+++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

09-L

Cryptosporidium enteritis

Salmonella typhimurium enteritis

Oral candidiasis

CMV infection

Wasting syndrome

++++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

10-L

Pneumonia

PCP

++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

11-S

Pneumonia

PCP

Oral candidiasis

++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

12-L

Pneumonia

PCP

Oral candidiasis

CMV infection

++

No new opportunistic infections,

doing well

Clinical events and symptoms of 12 severely immunosuppressed AIDS patients were carefully recorded within 1 year after AAIT treatment. Systemic constitutional symptoms included intermittent or continuous fever (38 °C) for more than 1 month repeated night sweats, debilitating fatigue, persistent diarrhea, and a loss of body weight of more than 10%, each “+” represents a symptom

PCP pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, EBV Epstein–Barr virus, CMV cytomegalovirus