Increased incidence of mucosal candidiasis after HAART initiation: a benign form of immune reconstitution disease?

Abstract

Immune reconstitution after HAART initiation is often complicated by adverse clinical manifestations caused either by the unmasking of preexisting untreated opportunistic infections or the clinical deterioration of a known and treated opportunistic infection. The present study was conducted to determine whether the initiation of HAART was followed by an increase in the incidence of mucosal candidiases, a possible manifestation of immune reconstitution disease of the unmasking type.