Resumen

ANDRADE PINEDA, RE  y  MARCANO LOZADA, MJ. Parasitic infections in the infected patient for the human immunodeficiency virus: Ethiological, clinical, diagnoses, therpeutic and prevention aspects. Rev. Soc. Ven. Microbiol. [online]. 2003, vol.23, n.2, pp.169-174. ISSN 1315-2556.

The diagnosis of parasitic infections in patients infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) it is of main importance, and it should be carried out in a reasoned way, instead of being an exclusion discovery or suggested by therapeutic failures against bacterial and micotic agents. In this article, several parasitic infections is approached from different points of viw as epidemic, clinical manifestations, diagnosis criteria, therapeutic and prevention, making emphasis in microsporidiosis and coccidiosis, besides toxoplasmosis. It is necessary to remember that the HIV/AIDS infection changes the clinical presentation of parasitic infections, it alters its diagnosis for the immunologic failure the same as its therapeutic answers, reason why is necessary for the physicians to always have present these agents in the moment to face a seropositive patient for HIV infection.