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Acute HIV Infections Increased During COVID-19

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MedPage Today

Acute HIV Cases Turn Up in COVID Screening

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The American Journal of Managed Care

Detecting Acute HIV Infection and Preventing Further Transmission

Detecting acute HIV infections is important because this infection contributes disproportionately to the transmission of HIV and highly contagious. A study evaluating the performance of an HIV antigen ...
Infectious Disease Advisor

Patients With HIV Have Higher 30-Day Readmission Risk After Heart Failure, Acute MI

Patients with HIV face a significantly higher 30-day readmission risk following hospitalization for HF or AMI compared with those without HIV.
Medical Xpress

Early-capture HIV study allows for characterization of acute infection period

Acute HIV infection (AHI) contributes significantly to HIV transmission and may be important for intervention strategies seeking to reduce incidence and achieve a functional cure. In a study by the ...
Medscape

Acute HIV Cases Double in ED. Is COVID-19 Responsible?

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The number of patients who presented with acute HIV infections at the University of Chicago's ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Signs and symptoms not present during acute HIV-1 infection

HealthDay News — Few symptoms and signs are observed during acute HIV-1 infection, and these are most common before peak viremia, according to a study published online May 18 in the New England ...
Medscape

Cyclosporine in Acute and Early HIV Infection

Adding a 4-week course of cyclosporine to antiretroviral therapy did not improve immunologic or virologic response. During acute and early HIV infection, high levels of viremia generate a massive ...
Science Daily

Tests to detect acute HIV infection

Researchers evaluated the performance of an HIV antigen/antibody (Ag/Ab) combination assay to detect acute HIV infection (early infection) compared with pooled HIV RNA testing, the reference standard.
WebMD

What Are the 3 Stages of HIV and How Do They Progress?

HIV is a virus that attacks your immune system. If you don’t treat it, HIV typically goes through three stages. But if you keep the virus under control, you may live for decades without symptoms and ...
Nature

Less is more? STI in acute and chronic HIV-1 infection

Emerging data has indicated that supervised treatment interruption (STI) of highly active antiretroviral therapy might significantly augment immune responses in HIV-1-infected patients and slow ...