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Table 3 Occurrence of first event of opportunistic illnesses in the two Brazilian national cohorts of children with AIDS (n = 1,859)

From: Opportunistic illnesses in Brazilian children with AIDS: results from two national cohort studies, 1983-2007

  

Cohort-HIV Diagnosis

  

Opportunistic illness

Total

N (%)

Pre-HAART Era

N (%)

HAART Era

N (%)

OR

(95% CI)

P

Invasive bacterial infection (excluding meningitis and septicemia)

791 (42.6)

359 (58.6)

432 (34.7)

2.66 (2.19-3.24)

< 0.001

P. jirovecii pneumonia

298 (16.0)

134 (21.9)

164 (13.2)

1.85 (1.44-2.37)

< 0.001

Bacterial meningitis or sepsis

195 (10.5)

103 (16.8)

92 (7.4)

2.53 (1.89-3.39)

< 0.001

Wasting syndrome

179 (9.6)

91 (10.0)

88 (9.3)

1.09 (0.80-1.48)

0.637

HIV encephalopathy

145 (7.8)

54 (8.8)

91 (7.3)

1.23 (0.86-1.74)

0.270

Cytomegalovirus infection

106 (5.7)

40 (6.5)

66 (5.3)

1.25 (0.83-1.87)

0.289

Candidiasis

101 (5.4)

35 (5.7)

66 (5.3)

1.08 (0.71-1.65)

0.744

Cryptosporidiosis

50 (2.7)

36 (5.9)

14 (1.1)

5.49 (3.13-9.62)

< 0.001

Herpes simplex, gingivostomatitis

39 (2.1)

20 (2.2)

19 (2.0)

1.09 (0.58-2.06)

0.872

Cerebral toxoplasmosis

33 (1.8)

13 (2.1)

20 (1.6)

1.33 (0.66-2.68)

0.457

Herpes simplex, mucocutaneous

25 (1.3)

10 (1.6)

15 (1.2)

1.36 (0.61-3.04)

0.521

Disseminated mycobacterial disease

22 (1.2)

9 (1.5)

13 (1.0)

1.41 (0.60-3.31)

0.494

Isosporiasis

21 (1.1)

11 (1.2)

10 (1.1)

1.14 (0.48-2.69)

0.829

Lymphoma

17 (0.9)

7 (1.1)

10 (0.8)

1.43 (0.54-3.75)

0.450

Cryptococcosis

15 (0.8)

10 (1.6)

5 (0.4)

4.12 (1.52-11.14)

0.010

Kaposi's sarcoma

3 (0.2)

2 (0.3)

1 (0.1)

4.08 (0.44-37.42)

0.254

Leukoencephalopathy

3 (0.2)

3 (0.5)

0 (0.0)

-

-

Salmonellosis

2 (0.1)

1 (0.2)

1 (0.1)

2.03 (0.13-30.79)

0.551

Histoplasmosis

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

-

-

Coccidioidomycosis

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

-

-