Objective: To describe lymphoma in HIV-2-infected patients and compare their characteristics with lymphoma in HIV-1-infected patients.
Design: Ancillary analysis from a single center prospective cohort of HIV-lymphoma.
Methods: We report on 16 patients with HIV-2-lymphoma diagnosed after 1996 and included in a prospective cohort of HIV lymphoma. Five additional HIV-2-infected patients coinfected with HIV-1 or/and HTLV-I (6 lymphomas) are separately reported. The incidence of lymphoma in HIV-2-infected patients was evaluated in the French multicentric HIV-2 cohort.
Results: Incidence of lymphoma in the French HIV-2 cohort was estimated as 0.6/1000 patient-years. In our series, the median CD4+ cell count was 166 × 106/l at the time of lymphoma diagnosis and 50% of patients had undetectable plasma HIV-2-RNA. Lymphomas were non-Hodgkin lymphoma (n = 12) and classical Hodgkin lymphoma (n = 4). Similarly to HIV-1-lymphoma, clinical presentation was aggressive in most cases. All but one patient received intensive chemotherapy. Complete remission was achieved in 13 cases and 1 patient relapsed. The overall survival was not statistically different from that observed in patients with HIV-1 lymphoma. The six additional lymphomas observed in five HIV-2-infected patients coinfected with HIV-1 or/and HTLV-I presented with similar clinical presentation but worse prognosis.
Conclusion: Despite the lower pathogenicity of HIV-2, the risk of developing lymphoma seems to be close to that observed in HIV-1 population with similar lymphoma characteristics. Compared with HIV-1, HIV-2-infected patients developed lymphoma later in their life but at a similar CD4+ cell count level.
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Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand)
November 2024
Pietro Annigoni Biomolecular Research Centre (CERBA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
HIV-2 infection although less virulent compared to HIV-1 is endemic in many parts of West Africa. In Burkina Faso, few data exist on HIV-2 genotypic resistance. The objective of this study was to assess HIV-2 genotypic resistance and viral load in adult patients infected with HIV-2 in Burkina Faso.
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March 2023
Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-019 Lisboa, Portugal.
Currently, it is estimated that 1-2 million people worldwide are infected with HIV-2, accounting for 3-5% of the global burden of HIV. The course of HIV-2 infection is longer compared to HIV-1 infection, but without effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), a substantial proportion of infected patients will progress to AIDS and die. Antiretroviral drugs in clinical use were designed for HIV-1 and, unfortunately, some do not work as well, or do not work at all, for HIV-2.
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November 2022
Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-019 Lisboa, Portugal.
Integrase inhibitors (INIs) are an important class of drugs for treating HIV-2 infection, given the limited number of drugs active against this virus. While the clinical efficacy of raltegravir and dolutegravir is well established, the clinical efficacy of bictegravir for treating HIV-2 infected patients has not been determined. Little information is available regarding the activity of bictegravir against HIV-2 isolates from patients failing raltegravir-based therapy.
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March 2022
Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, ASST Spedali Civili, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 2 (HIV-2) affects a minority of patients in Italy; nevertheless, the increasing migratory flow from higher prevalence areas led to the spread of this virus into our Country. We evaluate clinical, viro-immunological, and therapeutic characteristics of patients with HIV-2 infection and HIV-1/HIV-2 dual-infection and the early treatment impact on overall survival and incidence of AIDS events.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed all HIV-2, and HIV-1/HIV-2 positive patients followed in a large Italian clinic from January 1987 to December 2020.
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December 2021
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging & Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Background: Second-line treatment of HIV-2 in resource-limited settings (RLS) is complicated by a lack of controlled trial data, limited availability of HIV-2-active antiretroviral drugs, and inadequate access to drug resistance testing. We conducted an implementation trial of a dried blood spot- (DBS) based, drug resistance genotype-informed antiretroviral therapy (ART) switching algorithm for HIV-2-infected patients in Senegal.
Methods: HIV-2-infected adults initiating or receiving ART through the Senegalese national AIDS program were invited to participate in this single-arm trial.
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