A combined model based on lung CT imaging and clinical characteristics for the diagnosis of AIDS with infection of Talaromyces marneffei.

Objective: To construct a combined model based on the CT and clinical characteristics of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with infection of Talaromyces marneffei (TM) and evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the combined model.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 225 patients with AIDS patients with pulmonary infection admitted to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center from February 2012 to October 2022. Based on the final microbiological test results, they were divided into a group infected with TM and a group not infected with TM.