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CD4 cells/µl0 cells/µl usually precedes the diagnosis of an AIDS-OI, and most cases are now reported based on this immunologic criterion [7].
SLICC criteria require that at least one clinical criterion and one immunologic criterion be present, with a total of four criteria, to have a classification of SLE.
One important distinction from ACR-82 and ACR-97 is that SLICC-12 demands at least one immunologic criterion, prohibiting the SLE diagnosis from being based solely on clinical manifestations [ 10].
The presence of either IgM or IgG class antibodies against cardiolipin or β2-glycoprotein-1 and/or a positive lupus anticoagulant test (not classified as an immunologic criterion according to ACR-82) was found in 23 (50%) of the cases meeting the Fries criteria alone.
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However, immunologic criteria to predict which patients have not achieved virological suppression results in significant misclassification of treatment responses [11].
However, previous studies substantiate our finding that using immunologic criteria to predict virologic failure is problematic [3], [4], [36].
Patients meeting both clinical and immunologic criteria for therapeutic failure are assumed to have virologic failure, and VL testing is not performed.
HIV-infected persons are eligible for ART after counseling, clinical examination, and if immunologic criteria are met; for those with tuberculosis, CD4 cell count <350/ml indicates ART eligibility [20].
Participants in the study control arm receive 'discretionary' viral load testing according to local guidelines: VL testing is performed for those patients meeting either clinical or immunologic criteria for treatment failure, but not both.
As mentioned above, only 1 participant in the 5 days on/2 days off arm failed by protocol defined immunologic criteria (CD4 decrease of >30% on 2 consecutive measurements) at week 12 of follow-up.
Clinical and immunologic criteria were described by their proportions.
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