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humoral immune responses, compared to depressed or normal antibody reactivity in AIDS; follicular or mixed hyperplasia in ARC lymph nodes, leading to lymphocyte degeneration and depletion more typical of AIDS; evolving succession of histopathological lesions such as localization of
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Clinical use of this term was widely discontinued by the year 2000 in the United States after having been replaced by modern laboratory criteria.
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phase of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)" that includes: low grade
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situation was addressed with the creation of the term ARC.
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AIDS related complex

Kaposi's sarcoma
Specialty
Infectious disease
human immunodeficiency virus
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
emergency department
prodromal
fever
diarrhea
opportunistic infections
generalized lymphadenopathy
B-cell
Kaposi's sarcoma
As listed by the National Library of Medicine under Medical Subject Headings
D
MeSH
D000386
Category
HIV/AIDS

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