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. 2022 Jun 13;4(2):122-128.
doi: 10.36519/idcm.2022.131. eCollection 2022 Jun.

HIV and SARS-Cov-2 Co-Infection: A Local Perspective

Heval Can Bilek  1 , Aydın Deveci  1
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HIV and SARS-Cov-2 Co-Infection: A Local Perspective

Heval Can Bilek et al. Infect Dis Clin Microbiol. .

Abstract

Objective: As the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread globally, more human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients began to appear infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We aimed to evaluate the clinical course of HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infected patients from a local perspective.

Methods: HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infected patients diagnosed between March 2020 to June 2021 at a tertiary hospital in Turkey were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: Thirty HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infected patients were included. Five patients were female, 25 were male, and the mean age was 44.5 ±10.2 years. Twenty-three (76.7%) patients were known to be HIV-positive before their admission to the hospital, and seven (23.7%) patients, were detected by screening after the diagnosis of COVID-19. All patients were known to be HIV-positive; they were on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and virologically suppressed. Twenty-seven patients had a mild course. Three patients were hospitalized, and of them, two patients had died. All hospitalized patients were male and were ART-naïve.

Conclusion: HIV infection alone did not increase the severity of the course of COVID-19 and did not increase the mortality in COVID-19.

Keywords: AIDS; Immune; community health; respiratory tract; viral infection.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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