Virus load during primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) type 1 infection is related to the severity of acute HIV illness in Kenyan women.
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2002Author
Lavreys, L
Baeten, JM
Overbaugh, J
Panteleeff, DD
Chohan, BH
Richardson, BA
Mandaliya, K
Ndinya-Achola Jeckoniah O.
Kreiss, JK
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We evaluated the association between the severity of primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) illness and HIV-1 plasma virus load before seroconversion using stored plasma samples obtained from 74 prostitutes in Mombasa, Kenya. Fever, vomiting, headache, fatigue, arthralgia, myalgia, sore throat, skin rash, or being too sick to work were each associated with significantly higher virus loads before HIV-1 seroconversion, and each additional symptom or sign was associated with an increase in virus load of 0.4 log(10) copies/mL.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/12060878http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16724
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Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Jul 1;35(1):77-81Publisher
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98104, USA Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi
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