The Sordid Affair Between Human Herpesvirus and HIV

Overview

Journal J Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2015 Mar 10

PMID 25748324

Citations 52

Authors

Sara Gianella

Marta Massanella

Joel O Wertheim

Davey M Smith

Affiliations

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Abstract

Both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human herpesvirus (HHV) infections persist lifelong, and almost all individuals infected with HIV are also infected with ≥1 HHV. These coinfections are not independent processes or benign. In this review, we discuss how HHVs, and cytomegalovirus in particular, interact with concurrent HIV infection, and we describe the next steps necessary to understand and address these connections.

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