Onset of opportunistic infections in patients co-infected by HTLV-1 and HIV-1, with high CD4+ cells count.

Braz J Infect Dis

Virology Research Laboratory, Hospital Universitário Prof. Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil.

Published: August 2009

We reported two cases of patients with coinfection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 and human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type I who developed opportunistic infections despite of relatively high CD4+ cells count. These cases showed clinical evidence to consider an earlier antiretroviral treatment for coinfected patientes regardless CD4+ cells counts.

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