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We cultured bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from 23 consecutive patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and pulmonary symptoms. We also included a nonconsecutive AIDS patient with recent worsening of respiratory symptoms who had had lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) diagnosed six months earlier. Infectious HIV was present in the cellular fraction from two of the 23 consecutive patients and in the patient with LIP. No virus was isolated from the cell-free portion of the centrifuged fluids. The patients from whom HIV was cultured were not distinguishable from other patients by clinical, radiographic, or laboratory data, and their subsequent course did not appear to differ. One patient with a positive HIV culture had organizing pneumonia without evidence of LIP at autopsy three weeks after lavage. This study demonstrates that HIV can be cultured from cells obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage and suggests that its presence is not associated with a single specific pulmonary histologic pattern.
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