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What kind of fungus grows on your hands and arms, when your h.i.v positive?
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Tinea corporis, etc.: Because HIV infects a person's white blood cells, HIV prevents the person's immune system from properly stopping fungal and yeast infections (hiv patients get other types of infections too). Fungi such as tinea corporis grow on the skin (tinea versicolor, candida albicans, and other more serious ones probably do it too, in an HIV patient).
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