HIV/AIDS

Research reports from L. Cotte and co-authors provide new insights into HIV/AIDS

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, February 1st, 2010

"Multiple, concomitant or successive hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections have been described in injection drug users and following organ transplantation and blood transfusion. However, data on sexual HCV reinfection is scarce," scientists in Lyon, France report.

"We report sexual HCV reinfection following viral eradication of a first HCV infection in two homosexual HIV-infected men. The first patient acquired HCV genotype 4 infection after resolution of an initial acute HCV genotype 1a infection. The second patient was infected with genotype la HCV following remission of an initial acute HCV genotype 4c/d infection. The two subjects were successfully treated with...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2010-02-01)

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