All of the following are AIDS- defining conditions except influenza.
What are AIDS- defining diseases?
- There are various serious diseases which are associated with HIV infection and threaten the life of an organism. These are termed as AIDS- defining diseases.
- When a person contracts any of these diseases, he/she gets diagnosed with AIDS which is an advanced infection stage.
- Opportunistic Infections (OIs) are those diseases that begin to occur more rapidly once the immune system is weakened due to AIDS.
- Many of the OIs are AIDS defining conditions. Some of these get diagnosed in the early stages of infection.
- Some of the examples of AIDS-defining diseases are Candidiasis, Bacterial infections, Kaposi sarcoma, cervical cancer (invasive), Pneumocystis jirovecii (pneumonia), Toxoplasmosis of brain, HIV related encephalopathy, etc.
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