Clinical Overview of HIV Disease

Figure 2: Typical course of untreated HIV infection

Typical course of untreated HIV infection

Text version of figure:
Line graph showing the typical course of untreated HIV infection. Depicts this analogy: If the infected individual is imagined as being on that train traveling toward a clinical event--such as acquiring an OI or dying from AIDS--the CD4 count provides information on the distance of the train from that destination, whereas the viral load provides information on the speed of the train in reaching the destination.

Typical course of untreated HIV infection
From: Pantaleo G, Graziosi C, Fauci AS. New concepts in the immunopathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus infection. N Engl J Med. 1993;328:327-35.

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C. Bradley Hare, MD, University of California San Francisco
January 2006
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