"Virological and Immunological Study of Patients Coinfected with Human Immunodeficiency and Hepatitis C Viruses."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to The Year of Louis Pasteur International Symposia entitled Etiology and Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases, held April 10-13, 1995, in Dakar, Senegal, "Several clinical observations suggest that patients coinfected with Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus develop more frequently symptomatic liver disease than those who are infected with HCV alone. It has not been clearly elucidated whether it is correlated to an immunological mechanism induced by HIV infection, or to a direct interaction between the two viruses. We have studied the amount of HCV virus in the serum of 75 patients coinfected with HIV and HCV as compared to 75...

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