All of the following are AIDS- defining conditions except influenza.
What are AIDS- defining diseases?
There are various serious diseases which are associated with HIV infection and threaten the life of an organism. These are termed as AIDS- defining diseases.
When a person contracts any of these diseases, he/she gets diagnosed with AIDS which is an advanced infection stage.
Opportunistic Infections (OIs) are those diseases that begin to occur more rapidly once the immune system is weakened due to AIDS.
Many of the OIs are AIDS defining conditions. Some of these get diagnosed in the early stages of infection.
Some of the examples of AIDS-defining diseases are Candidiasis, Bacterial infections, Kaposi sarcoma, cervical cancer (invasive), Pneumocystis jirovecii (pneumonia), Toxoplasmosis of brain, HIV related encephalopathy, etc.