Herpes Zoster in Persons Living with HIV-1 Infection: Viremia and Immunological Defects Are Strong Risk Factors in the Era of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy

Herpes Zoster in Persons Living with HIV-1 Infection: Viremia and Immunological Defects Are Strong Risk Factors in the Era of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy

In a cohort of 4,225 persons living with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection (PLWH) enrolled at a southeastern US clinic, the overall rate of incident herpes zoster (HZ) was 101 per 10,000 person-years (PY) between January 1999 and 2017, which nearly quadruples the rate reported fo...

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Main Authors: Nathaniel B. Erdmann, Heather A. Prentice, Anju Bansal, Howard W. Wiener, Greer Burkholder, Sadeep Shrestha, Jianming Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
herpes zoster
human immunodeficiency virus type 1
incident rate
epidemiology
correlation
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00070/full

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