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Case Reports
. 2020 Sep-Oct;24(5):455-457.
doi: 10.1016/j.bjid.2020.07.009. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

COVID-19 pneumonia in an HIV-positive woman on antiretroviral therapy and undetectable viral load in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Murillo Machado Cipolat  1 , Eduardo Sprinz  2
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COVID-19 pneumonia in an HIV-positive woman on antiretroviral therapy and undetectable viral load in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Murillo Machado Cipolat et al. Braz J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has been a problem worldwide. It is important to identify people at risk of progressing to severe complications and to investigate if some existing antivirals could have any action against SARS-CoV-2. In this context, HIV-infected individuals and antiretroviral drugs might be included, respectively. Herein we present the case of a 63-year-old HIV-infected woman with undetectable viral load, on dolutegravir, tenofovir and lamivudine, who was hospitalized due to COVID-19 pneumonia. In spite of having some clinical markers of severity on admission, the patient improved and was discharged after a week. To our knowledge, this is the first report of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in an HIV-infected individual in Brazil.

Keywords: AIDS; COVID-19; HIV; SARS-CoV-2.

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Chest X-ray with peripheral opacities in inferior lobes of both lungs.
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