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Session 99
Poster Presentations Opportunistic Infections: Risks, Incidence, Prevalence, and Outcomes Tuesday 1:30 - 3:30 pm Hall B |
| 791 | Safety and Efficacy of Short-term Treatment with Growth Hormone and Thalidomide in HIV-infected Patients with a Secondary Infection: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multi-center Trial M. Schambelan*1,2, K. Mulligan1,2, P. Bacchetti1, K. L. Johansen1,3, S. Bhasin4, C. Grunfeld1,3, D. P. Kotler5, S. Hulley1 1Univ of California at San Francisco; 2San Francisco Gen Hosp, CA; 3Veterans Admin Med Ctr, San Francisco, CA; 4Charles R Drew Univ, Los Angeles, CA; and 5St Luke's-Roosevelt Hosp Ctr, New York, NY |
| 792 | CD4 Percentage vs Absolute CD4 for Predicting Risk of Opportunistic Illnesses K. A. Gebo*, J. E. Gallant, R. D. Moore, J. C. Keruly Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore, MD |
| 793 | Increasing Risk of Opportunistic Illness in HIV-infected Injecting Drug Users in Care R. D. Moore*, J. C. Keruly, R. E. Chaisson Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD |
| 794 | Unusually High Prevalence of Ocular Syphilis in HIV-infected Patients Receiving HAART G. Phadungchai*, P. Kumar, J. Welsch, A. James, J. Timpone Georgetown Univ Hosp, Washington, DC |
| 795 | Primary Prophylaxis Against Systemic Fungal Infections Among Persons Living with AIDS in Thailand: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis K. Tuli*1,2, T. Clark1, P. Ningsanond3, J. Morgan1, Y. Laosiritaworn3, S. Kongsin4, S. Thanprasertsuk5, J. Tappero5, R. Hajjeh1 1CDC, Atlanta, GA; 2Los Angeles County STD Prgm, CA; 3Intl Field Epidemiology Training Program, Thailand; 4Mahidol Univ, Bangkok, Thailand; and 5Thailand MOPH-U S CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi |
| 796 | Timing of reconstitution of Toxoplasma gondii-specific T-cell Responses in AIDS Patients with Acute Toxoplasmic Encephalitis After Starting HAART: A Prospective Multi-center Longitudinal Study J. M. Miro*1, M. Lejeune1, X. Claramonte1, E. Martinez1, E. Ribera2, J. Arrizabalaga3, J. R. Arribas4, P. Domingo5, D. Podzamczer6, M. Crespo2, M. Plana1, M. E. Valls1, F. Garcia1, A. Jacquet7, J. M. Gatell1, O. Sued1, E. Lazzari1, J. L. Blanco1, T. Gallart1 1Hosp Clin, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; 2Hosp V Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain; 3Hosp Ntra Sra De Aranzazu, San Sebastian, Spain; 4Hosp La Paz, Madrid, Spain; 5Hosp St Pau, Barcelona, Spain; 6Hosp de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; and 7Univ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 797 | Immunological Reconstitution of Humoral Response to Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Antigens after HAART in Patients with Previous Immune System Deterioration (< 200 CD4+ Lymphocytes) V. Falco*, E. Ribera, M. J. Cruz, O. Len, M. Crespo, D. Rodriguez, M. J. Rodriguez, I. Ocana, A. Pahissa Hosp V Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain |
| 798 | Low Incidence of Communitiy-acquired Pneumonia in Patients Discontinuing Antibiotic Primary Prophylaxis Against Pneumocystis Pneumonia H. Furrer*1, C. Eigenmann1, M. Flepp2, E. Bernasconi3, V. Schiffer4, A. Telenti5, H. Bucher6, T. Wagels7, M. Egger1, Swiss HIV Cohort Study8 1Univ Hosp, Berne, Switzerland; 2Univ Hosp, Zurich, Switzerland; 3Cantonal Hosp Lugano, Switzerland; 4Univ Hosp, Geneva, Switzerland; 5Univ Hosp, Lausanne, Switzerland; 6Univ Hosp, Basel, Switzerland; 7Cantonal Hosp, St Gallen, Switzerland; and 8Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 799 | Discontinuation of Maintenance Therapy for Cryptococcal Meningitis in Patients Treated with HAART: A Multi-center Observational Study C. Mussini*1, P. Pezzotti2, J. M. Meda3, E. Martinez3, J. C. L. Bernaldo de Quiros4, P. Cinque5, V. Borghi1, P. Domingo6, P. Cahn7, P. Bossi8, M. Nelson9, A. Cossarizza10, R. Esposito10, A. Antinori11, J. A. Aberg12 1Policlinico, Modena, Italy; 2Inst Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; 3Inst d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Hosp Clin, Univ of Barcelona, Spain; 4Infectious Diseases Unit, Hosp Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain; 5Clin of Infectious Diseases, Univ Vita e Salute, Milan, Italy; 6Hosp de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; 7Hosp J A Fernandez, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 8Groupe Hosp Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; 9Chelsea and Westminster Hosp, London, UK; 10Modena Univ, Italy; 11Natl Inst for Infectious Diseases L Spallanzani, Rome, Italy; and 12Washington Univ, St Louis, MO |
| 800 | Increase in Pneumocystis carinii Mutations in AIDS Patients with PCP in the US and Comparison with China P. Kazanjian*1, D. Fisk1, W. Armstrong1, Q. Shulin3, Z. Ke4, S. Meshnick2 1Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 2Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 3Peking Union Med Coll, Beijing, China; and 4You An Hosp, Beijing, China |
| 801 | West Nile Virus Meningoencephalitis in Patients with HIV Infection C. del Rio*1,2, P. Dull1, S. Gala1, H. M. Blumberg1,2 1Emory Univ Sch of Med, Atlanta, GA and 2Grady Mem Hosp, Atlanta, GA |