HIV-infected individuals with a low CD4 count experienced a longer duration of influenza virus shedding, according to findings published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. “Prolonged shedding of ...

A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...

ART recommended for all with HIV, regardless of CD4 count New recommendations state that all patients with HIV be treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) regardless of CD4 cell count. HealthDay News ...

The authors compared the CD4+ T-cell counts and HIV-1 RNA viral loads of 383 patients who were either mono-infected with HIV or co-infected with HTLV-1/HIV. They confirmed that co-infected patients ...

For adults infected with HIV in Thailand a monitoring strategy based on CD4 count (a type of white blood cell) is non-inferior to the recommended monitoring strategy measuring the amount of HIV virus ...

A 45-year-old active substance user began getting medical care in your clinic in 1997. He had started taking antiretrovirals (nelfinavir + Combivir) at another facility. Initial labs showed an ...

No difference in stroke risk for HIV-positive patients Those with HIV and high CD4 cell counts had no excess risk for ischemic stroke compared with those without HIV. In a 15-year study, risk for ...

CD4 counts show how strong your immune system is; lower counts mean a weaker immune response. The CD4 percentage shows what part of your white blood cells are CD4 cells and helps check how strong your ...

Immunocompromised populations develop a lower immunogenic response to COVID-19 vaccines, leaving them at a higher risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Patients with HIV who have low ...

Our data demonstrates that among patients initiating therapy in RLS with (mainly) an NNRTI-based regimen, CD4 cell count recovery is impaired in the presence of on-going HIV-RNA replication over an 18 ...