HIV and Chagas Disease Coinfection, a Tractable Disease?

We present 2 patients born in Argentina who were newly diagnosed with advanced HIV disease and Chagas disease reactivation with central nervous system involvement. The patients received concurrent benznidazole treatment and antiretroviral therapy, showing good response. Improvement in morbidity and...

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Autores principales: Guidetto, Betiana, Tatta, Melisa, Latini, Veronica, Gonzales, Milene, Riarte, Adelina, Tavella, Silvina, Warley, Eduardo, Altclas, Javier
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz307
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author Guidetto, Betiana
Tatta, Melisa
Latini, Veronica
Gonzales, Milene
Riarte, Adelina
Tavella, Silvina
Warley, Eduardo
Altclas, Javier
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Tatta, Melisa
Latini, Veronica
Gonzales, Milene
Riarte, Adelina
Tavella, Silvina
Warley, Eduardo
Altclas, Javier
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description We present 2 patients born in Argentina who were newly diagnosed with advanced HIV disease and Chagas disease reactivation with central nervous system involvement. The patients received concurrent benznidazole treatment and antiretroviral therapy, showing good response. Improvement in morbidity and mortality due to early treatment makes this treatment appropriate for coinfected patients.
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spelling pubmed-66635052019-08-05 HIV and Chagas Disease Coinfection, a Tractable Disease? Guidetto, Betiana Tatta, Melisa Latini, Veronica Gonzales, Milene Riarte, Adelina Tavella, Silvina Warley, Eduardo Altclas, Javier Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We present 2 patients born in Argentina who were newly diagnosed with advanced HIV disease and Chagas disease reactivation with central nervous system involvement. The patients received concurrent benznidazole treatment and antiretroviral therapy, showing good response. Improvement in morbidity and mortality due to early treatment makes this treatment appropriate for coinfected patients. Oxford University Press 2019-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6663505/ /pubmed/31363767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz307 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Guidetto, Betiana
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HIV and Chagas Disease Coinfection, a Tractable Disease?
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz307
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