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What types of symptoms do infectious disease specialists look for to detect hiv?

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Dr. John Leander Po answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Context & symptoms: If there is an opportunity to test a patient for hiv, we'll take it! in situations where there 1) repeated infections such as abscesses or pneumonias or sores, 2) symptoms that are flu-like or mono-like, 3) diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease, 4) unexplained fevers or night sweats or wasting 5) exposure to body fluids 6)an opportunity to ask to be tested and is accepted.

Answered 9/29/2013

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