HIV seroconversion illnesses occur in between one half and two thirds of recently
infected individuals.
1.
Early symptoms may include fever, lymph node enlargement, pharyngitis, rash, myalgia
or arthralgia possibly with thrombocytopenia or leukopenia. More serious symptoms
may include neuropathy and encephalopathy.
2.
Recognition of HIV seroconversion illnesses requires a high degree of suspicion and
the realisation that a patient is in an ‘at risk group’. However, the concept of at
risk groups may become progressively less useful as HIV spreads into the general ‘non-risk
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© 2003 The British Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
