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Article: Acute Scrub-Typhus Infection Suppresses HIV-1.(Brief Article)
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- Virus Weekly
- Article date:
- September 26, 2000
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2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scrub-typhus bacteria may have antiretroviral activity, propose researchers in the United States.
"In HIV-1 infected individuals, viral load has been reported to rise transiently if an acute infection with another organism occurs," wrote G. Watt and colleagues, AFRIMS. "Our study was prompted by the unexpected finding that HIV-1 copy number fell during an acute infection with Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of scrub typhus."
The researchers determined serial HIV-1 viral load in 10 HIV-1 infected Thai adults with scrub typhus who were not receiving antiretroviral therapy, and in five HIV-1 infected patients who ...