Opportunistic infection
Usualy we call "opportunistic infection" those diseases which appear
only if immunity is weak. Any normal person is able to fight with such disease
without treatment.
- Pneumocystis pneumonia (usualy cyanosis+ dyspnea+ symetrical auscultation...)
- Cryptococosis meningitis (usualy symetrical temporal headache+ stiff neck...)
- Cerebral toxoplasmosis (usualy sub-acute assymetrical unifocl neurological
symptom...)
- Multifocal leuko encephalitis (usualy chronic assymetrical multifocal neurological
symptoms...)
- Cytomegalovirus retinitis (usualy subacute irrevesible blindness of 1 or
2 eyes...)
- Etc.
But we can also extend the meaning to the diseases that everybody can got but
which are more common and severe if your immunity is destroy by HIV
- Herpes (simplex 1&2, zoster, chickenpox... )
- Tuberculosis (usualy chronic assymetrical lungs or brain disease...
- Psoriasis (usualy skin affection... but can affect articulation...)
- Norvegian scabies (skin affection...)
- Etc.
To know more about those diseases, you can visit the
website "AIDS-HOSPICE.com"
(same webmaster) with more than 1000 photos... but the site is more dedicated
for doctors and can seems very complex for person without medical knowledge.