Open AccessUnusually high HIV infectiousness in an HIV-, HCV- and HSV-2-coinfected heterosexual man
Author(s) -
S Yerly
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
swiss medical weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1424-7860
pISSN - 1424-3997
DOI - 10.4414/smw.2009.12575
Subject(s) - medicine , semen , asymptomatic , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , sex organ , viral shedding , immunology , virus , biology , genetics , andrology
We report an HIV-HCV-HSV-2-coinfected man, who infected all of five sequential female sexual partners within seven years. HIV-RNA in semen was unusually high and exceeded that in plasma by one log10. Screening for sexually transmitted diseases remained negative with the exception of HSV-2-seropositivity. Recurrent asymptomatic genital herpes might explain the patient's increased HIV-RNA shedding in semen.
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