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During a two-year period, 26 Central African patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex were seen in two Belgian hospitals and five of these patients presented with non-typhoidSalmonella bacteremia. Three additional patients were observed in a Rwandese hospital. These eight African patients were compared with 16 non-AIDS patients with non-typhoidSalmonella bacteremias. The patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex did not have gastroenteritis, but they did have a high recurrence rate and high prevalence ofSalmonella typhimurium. Long-term antibiotic prophylaxis seems warranted for such patients despite the high frequency of side effects from antibiotics.
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De Wit, S., Taelman, H., Van de Perre, P. et al. Salmonella bacteremia in African patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 7, 45–47 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01962170
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