Sustained Viremic Control in HIV-Infected Patient: Case Report from Nepal

A case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is described from Nepal with constant maintenance of CD4 count and HIV-RNA level below the lower detection threshold for more than ten years. The case was diagnosed of HIV positive in the year 2008. He had his viral load estimation performed eve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Khadka, Sundar, Dhital, Subhash, Pandit, Roshan, Bastola, Anup
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29732227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5279595
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Sumario:A case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is described from Nepal with constant maintenance of CD4 count and HIV-RNA level below the lower detection threshold for more than ten years. The case was diagnosed of HIV positive in the year 2008. He had his viral load estimation performed every year since then which was always below lower detection limit and remained healthy without treatment. The patient also had not any kinds of opportunistic infection till date. He is married now and has not transmitted the disease to his wife.

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