Immune Correlates of Herpes Zoster in People Living with HIV on Effective Antiretroviral Therapy
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Immune correlates of herpes zoster in HIV-infected children and youth.
To identify immunologic factors that modulate the risk of herpes zoster (HZ), we compared varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-specific and nonspecific T-cell subpopulations of 47 HIV-infected children before they developed HZ with those of 141 VZV-positive HZ-negative matched controls. Compared with controls, HZ cases had lower VZV-specific CD8(+) CD107a(+) cell percentages independently of CD4(+) per...
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عنوان ژورنال: AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0889-2229,1931-8405
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2019.0053