Unusually high HIV infectiousness in an HIV-, HCV- and HSV-2-coinfected heterosexual man

Publikation

Unusually high HIV infectiousness in an HIV-, HCV- and HSV-2-coinfected heterosexual man

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 04.04.2009

Witteck Andrea, Yerly Sabine, Vernazza Pietro

Zitation

Witteck A, Yerly S, Vernazza P. Unusually high HIV infectiousness in an HIV-, HCV- and HSV-2-coinfected heterosexual man. Swiss medical weekly : official journal of the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Pneumology 2009; 139:207-9.

Art

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)

Zeitschrift

Swiss medical weekly : official journal of the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Pneumology 2009; 139

Veröffentlichungsdatum

04.04.2009

ISSN (Druck)

1424-7860

Seiten

207-9

Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

We report an HIV-HCV-HSV-2-coinfected man, who infected all of five sequential female sexual partners within seven years. HIV-RNA in semen was unusually high and exceeded that in plasma by one log10. Screening for sexually transmitted diseases remained negative with the exception of HSV-2-seropositivity. Recurrent asymptomatic genital herpes might explain the patient's increased HIV-RNA shedding in semen.