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. 2021 Apr;49(2):333-337.
doi: 10.1007/s15010-020-01492-7. Epub 2020 Aug 3.

COVID-19 in patients with HIV-1 infection: a single-centre experience in northern Italy

Leonardo Calza  1 , Isabella Bon  2 , Marina Tadolini  3 , Marco Borderi  3 , Vincenzo Colangeli  3 , Lorenzo Badia  3 , Gabriella Verucchi  3 , Giada Rossini  2 , Caterina Vocale  2 , Paolo Gaibani  2 , Pierluigi Viale  3 , Luciano Attard  3
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COVID-19 in patients with HIV-1 infection: a single-centre experience in northern Italy

Leonardo Calza et al. Infection. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

Background: Since the end of February 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak rapidly spread throughout Italy and other European countries, but limited information has been available about its characteristics in HIV-infected patients.

Methods: We have described a case series of patients with HIV infection and COVID-19 diagnosed at the S.Orsola Hospital (Bologna, Italy) during March and April, 2020.

Results: We reported a case series of 26 HIV-infected patients with COVID-19. Nineteen subjects were men, the median age was 54 years, 73% of patients had one or more comorbidities. Only 5 patients with interstitial pneumonia were hospitalized, but there were no admissions to intensive care unit and no deaths.

Conclusions: In our experience, COVID-19 associated with HIV infection had a clinical presentation comparable to the general population and was frequently associated with chronic comorbidities.

Keywords: Comorbidity; Coronavirus; HIV; Pneumonia; Protease inhibitors.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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