[Principal clinical manifestations during the course of disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo). (307 cases hospitalized during 2 years at the medical service of the Regional Hospital of the Army)].

At the sight of the hospitalization of 307 patients, attacked by AIDS, inside the department of Medicine of the Military Hospital in Pointe-Noire (Congo) between 1990-1992, the authors try to point out the principal epidemiological characteristics of their patients; give a semeiological and clinical descriptions of the key symptoms encountered; try to draw a scale depending on the apparition and frequency of the opportunistic infections. The great number of some diseases (tuberculosis, cryptococcal meningitidis, herpes zoster, diarrhea, neurologic complications ..