Table 10.1-2. AIDS-indicator diseases

Stage-3 defining opportunistic infections

– Bacterial infections, multiple or recurrenta

– Candidiasis of bronchi, trachea, or lungs

– Candidiasis of esophagus

– Cervical cancer, invasiveb

Coccidioidomycosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary

– Cryptococcosis, extrapulmonary

– Cryptosporidiosis, chronic intestinal (>1 month’s duration)

– Cytomegalovirus disease (other than liver, spleen, or nodes), onset at age >1 month

– Cytomegalovirus retinitis (with loss of vision)

– Encephalopathy attributed to HIV

– Herpes simplex: chronic ulcers (>1 month’s duration) or bronchitis, pneumonitis, or esophagitis (onset at age >1 month)

– Histoplasmosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary

– Isosporiasis, chronic intestinal (>1 month’s duration)

– Kaposi sarcoma

– Lymphoma, Burkitt (or equivalent term)

– Lymphoma, immunoblastic (or equivalent term)

– Lymphoma, primary, of brain

Mycobacterium avium complex or Mycobacterium kansasii, disseminated or extrapulmonary

Mycobacterium tuberculosis of any site, pulmonary,b disseminated, or extrapulmonary

– Mycobacterium, other species or unidentified species, disseminated or extrapulmonary

Pneumocystis jiroveci (previously known as Pneumocystis carinii) pneumonia

– Community-acquired pneumonia, recurrentb

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

– Salmonella septicemia, recurrent

– Toxoplasmosis of brain, onset at age >1 month

– Wasting syndrome attributed to HIV

Neoplastic diseases

– Kaposi sarcoma

– Lymphoma (Burkitt, primary lymphoma of brain, immunoblastic)

– Invasive cervical carcinoma

Clinical syndromes

– HIV-related encephalopathy

– HIV-related wasting

a Only among children aged <6 years.

b Only among adults, adolescents, and children aged ≥6 years.

Adapted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Revised surveillance case definition for HIV infection--United States, 2014. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2014 Apr 11;63(RR-03):1-10.

AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.