1. Viral Coinfections among African Children Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1.
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Chakroborty, Rana, Rees, Gareth, Bourboulia, Dimitra, Cross, Alexandra M., Dixon, Jedediah R., D'Agostino, Angelo, Musoke, Rachel, Boshoff, Chris, Rowland-Jones, Sarah L., and Klenerman, Paul
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HIV-positive persons ,CYTOMEGALOVIRUS diseases ,HERPESVIRUS diseases ,HEPATITIS viruses - Abstract
City-dwelling children from Kenya who were infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were tested for coinfection with cytomegalovirus (CMV), human T cell lymphotropic viruses 1 and 2, Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), or hepatitis B, C, and G viruses. All children were found to be coinfected with CMV, whereas 5% had hepatitis G virus coinfection and 15% had KSHV coinfection. A protective role for hepatitis G virus cannot be excluded but likely affects only a minority of HIV-1-infected African children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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