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Ex Vivo Infection of Human Lymphoid Tissue and Female Genital Mucosa with Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 and Histoculture
Published on: October 12, 2018
An unusual vulval lesion in an HIV-infected woman
1Whittall Street Clinic, Birmingham B4 6DH, UK. meg.boothby@hobtpct.nhs.uk
Abstract:
This is the case of a black African woman who presented with three distinct episodes of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection unresponsive to first-line therapy. Clinical and virological resistance to aciclovir therapy was demonstrated, and although the first two episodes manifested as the deep ulceration often associated with HIV/HSV coinfection, the third was an atypical hypertrophic lesion. This is despite her CD4 count being persistently above 300 and there being no previous diagnosis of AIDS.
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