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Medical situations to consider HIV infection, Infections, impaired immunity, unexplained lymphadenopathy, thrombocytopenia, Tumours, unexplained weight loss unexplained diarrhoea night sweats pyrexia of unknown origin

Medical situations to consider HIV infection Reticulo-endothelial abnormalities: impaired immunity unexplained lymphadenopathy thrombocytopenia Infections: tuberculosis or atypical mycobacterial infection Pneumocystis jiroveci (carinii)  pneumonia cerebral toxoplasmosis oral or oesophageal candidiasis herpes zoster (in younger people) cytomegalovirus retinitis Tumours: non-hodgkin's lymphoma cerebral lymphoma General: symptoms suggesting seroconversion illness, especially if associated with another STI oral hairy leukoplakia unexplained weight loss unexplained diarrhoea night sweats pyrexia of unknown origin