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Amplifying and Quantifying HIV-1 RNA in HIV Infected Individuals with Viral Loads Below the Limit of Detection by Standard Clinical Assays
Published on: September 26, 2011
Acute HIV-infection: report of a case and a review of recent developments
T van Gelder1, A C Kroes, M E van der Ende
1Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Hospital Dijkzigt, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Abstract:
A patient is reported with a typical acute HIV-infection. He presented with an infectious mononucleosis-like illness, which included fever, malaise, sore throat, myalgia, swollen glands and a rash. Seroconversion, documented by serial immunoblotting, occurred within a period of four days. If a patient with a glandular fever-like illness belongs to one of the risk groups, an acute HIV-infection should be seriously considered. In a recent study an association was found between the clinical course of acute HIV-infection and the subsequent course. Treatment of asymptomatic HIV-infected patients is discouraged, except if included in a clinical trial.
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