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Acta stomatologica Croatica : International journal of oral sciences and dental medicine, Vol. 22 No. 3, 1988.

Professional paper

Oral manifestations in AIDS

Hrvoje Brkić ; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Manuela Brajković ; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Cekić-Arambašin ; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Decresed activity of the immune system leads to activation of physiological flora to opportune infections. As the oral cavity is the beginning of the digestive tract it is full of microorganisms, so it is logical to find the first symptoms of AIDS here in the oral cavity,
We examined 18 hospitalised patients infected with the AIDS virus and their Hospital forms in the Clinic for Infective Diseases »dr Fran Mihaljević« in Zagreb, from 1986-1988. In 89% of 18 infected patients had an oral candidiasis, in 28% of cases xerostomia was present, 17% of patients had herpes symplex infections and other changes appeared only in small persentages: Kaposi sarkoma, ANUG, haemorrhagiae and aphthae, only 6%.

Keywords

AIDS; oral manifestation

Hrčak ID:

105087

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105087

Publication date:

15.9.1988.

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