Data from an NIH-funded study in AIDS suggest the majority of children with HIV eventually recover their CD4 cell levels after undergoing virologic suppression. Researchers assessed CD4 cell levels ...

Recent research on cytomegalovirus retinitis conducted during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy indicates that CD4 cell count may not be the most accurate predictor of CMV retinitis ...

A 45-year-old active substance user began getting medical care in your clinic in 1997. He had started taking antiretrovirals (nelfinavir + Combivir) at another facility. Initial labs showed an ...

Treatment of HIV may be based on viral load (VL) or CD4 count. A new randomized controlled trial demonstrates that both approaches are equivalent when it comes to 3-year rates of clinical failure and ...

Objective:To predict the effects of a new antiretroviral agent on the costs of care in a US HIV care setting. Methods: Recent data on costs of patient care by CD4 count from 2 US cohorts (the HIV ...

From 2002 to 2015, CD4 cell counts at the start of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) increased, and the proportion of individuals with severe immunodeficiency at the start of cART decreased ...

(HealthDay News) – Syphilis is associated with a transient decrease in the CD4 cell count and with an increase in viral load (VL) in HIV-infected men. To examine the effect of early syphilis on plasma ...

HIV viruses infecting T-lymphocytes, computer illustration. The surface of the T-cell has a lumpy appearance with large irregular surface protrusions. Smaller spherical structures on the cell surface ...

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Background. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-ininfected Ethiopians have lower CD4 T cell counts than do other populations in Africa and industrialized countries. We studied whether this ...