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To the Editor: The course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is usually more severe in elderly patients than in younger patients.¹ We have been following a 78-year-old man who, as a result of a test performed before cataract surgery in 1985, was found to be seropositive for HIV type 1 (HIV-1). The patient is a retired factory worker who is unmarried and heterosexual, has never taken drugs, and has never received blood transfusions. He now lives in Sardinia but previously lived in northern Italy, where he had sexual contacts with prostitutes, the most likely source of infection.

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