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A 28-year-old man was evaluated at the hospital because of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), pancytopenia, and lymphoma.
The patient had been well until 38 months earlier, when he was first examined at this hospital because of generalized lymphadenopathy, and a test for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was positive. He was raised in Ohio and had traveled throughout the United States. He was a phlebotomist at another medical facility, where he wore rubber gloves when working; he had received two transfusions after a motor vehicle accident nine years earlier and had no other risk factors except for a
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