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Human studies on alcohol and susceptibility to HIV infection
A K Balla1, H W Lischner, R J Pomerantz
1University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology, Oklahoma City 73190.
Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Here we review existing evidence that alcohol intake may influence the susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and the effect that alcohol may have on accelerating the onset of AIDS after the initial infection. Possible immunological and psychosocial mechanisms to explain the increased incidence of HIV-1 infection in alcoholism are discussed.