Pediatrics (Epstein-Barr Virus)

Children Co-infected With HIV and EBV Develop More Symptoms

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 27th, 1998

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is not affected by concurrent HIV infection and vice versa, researchers report, but children co-infected with the viruses develop more symptoms than their HIV negative counterparts, they observed.

Dr. Louise Pedneault of Glaxo Wellcome Inc. and colleagues in Canada presented their work on EBV/HIV co-infection in children in the Journal of Infectious Diseases ("Natural History of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in a Prospective Pediatric Cohort Born to Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Mothers," J Infect Dis, April 1998;177(4):1087-90).

The 62 children participating in the study were born to HIV positive mothers. ...

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