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Other viral infections common among HIV-infected women.
2003 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Other viral infections are common among HIV-infected and high-risk HIV-uninfected women.
According to a study from the United States, "Viruses that can persist in the host are of special concern in immunocompromised populations. Among 871 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and 439 high-risk HIV-uninfected women, seroprevalences of cytomegalovirus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and prevalence of human papillomavirus DNA in cervicovaginal lavage fluids were all >50% and were 2-30 times higher than prevalences in the general population."
"Prevalences were highest among HIV-infected women, of whom 44.2% had greater than or equal to5 other infections, and were relatively high even among the youngest women (age 16-25 years)," reported Cynthia T. Stover at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and fellow members of the HIV Epidemiology Research Study Group. "In multivariate analyses, viral infections were independently associated not only with behaviors such as injection drug use and commercial sex but also with low income, low levels of education, and black race. Disadvantaged ...
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