Therapy

HAART May Be Useful Against HBV in HIV+

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 10th, 1999

Highly active antiretroviral therapy may be effective against persistent hepatitis B virus in patients who are also HIV positive.

K. Nagai and colleagues from Yokohama, Japan's Saiseikai Yokohama-shi Nanbu Hospital report a case of simultaneous infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV-1 in a 26-year-old Japanese homosexual man.

"He was admitted to our hospital for acute hepatitis caused by HBV," they wrote ("Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Used to Treat Concurrent Hepatitis B and HIV Infections," Journal of Gastroenterology, April 1999;34(2):275-28).

"At that time, HIV-1 antibody (Ab) was not detected in his serum. ...

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