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HIV-1 superinfection
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 25:42-50
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012.
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Abstract
- Purpose of review This review describes the nature and frequency of HIV-1 superinfection and provides advice regarding counselling of patients in accordance with national guidelines. Recent findings Recent studies have demonstrated conflicting results, from no superinfection to an incidence of over 18%. We discuss the difficulties comparing studies due to population and methodological differences. Summary HIV-infected individuals should be counselled that there is risk of superinfection at all stages of HIV, but this is unlikely to be clinically significant unless transmission of resistance occurs. The risk may be as high as the risk of new incident infection in the presence of on-going exposure.
- Subjects :
- Counseling
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Transmission (medicine)
Incidence
Incidence (epidemiology)
Population
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
virus diseases
HIV Infections
medicine.disease_cause
Infectious Diseases
Species Specificity
Superinfection
Practice Guidelines as Topic
HIV-1
Humans
Medicine
business
Intensive care medicine
education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09517375
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....591a4de691469c392cd47169af3418f4