This reference guide is designed to enable the reader to quickly and easily access information on risk factors for AIDS, infectious diagnostic indicators, opportunistic infections and malignancies associated with the syndrome, and postmortem evaluation. The book begins with a review of the natural history and epidemiology of HIV and related retroviruses. Diagnostic issues are discussed by causative agent, by manifestations, and by organ system manifestations both in living patients and upon autopsy. Concise information is provided on prognosis, treatment, laboratory safety and regulations, autopsy and mortuary procedures, and medicolegal issues. The book contains 11 diagnostic and prognostic tables, as well as illustrations of the relative shapes and sizes of opportunistic infectious agents.