Differences in HIV natural history among African and non-African seroconverters in Europe and seroconverters in sub-Saharan Africa.

It is unknown whether HIV treatment guidelines, based on resource-rich country cohorts, are applicable to African populations.We estimated CD4 cell loss in ART-naïve, AIDS-free individuals using mixed models allowing for random intercept and slope, and time from seroconversion to clinical AIDS, deat...

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Main Authors: Nikos Pantazis, Charles Morrison, Pauli N Amornkul, Charlotte Lewden, Robert A Salata, Albert Minga, Tsungai Chipato, Harold Jaffe, Shabir Lakhi, Etienne Karita, Kholoud Porter, Laurence Meyer, Giota Touloumi, CASCADE Collaboration in EuroCoord and ANRS 1220 Primo-CI Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3295758?pdf=render