10 Feb The clinical impact of immunodeficiency and viraemia in the era of combined antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 infection
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Authored by: Shuangjie Zhang
Thesis Universiteit van Amsterdam
Promotor(s): P. Reiss
Copromotor(s): F. de Wolf
Date of thesis defense: 10/02/2015
Despite treatment with combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), patients may experience viraemia at different levels and for varying periods of time, and CD4 count recovery, even in patients with sustained virus suppression, frequently remains suboptimal. We studied the characteristics of episodes of low- and high-level viraemia, including during cART interruption, and evaluated their immunologic, virologic andclinical impact in patients enrolled in the AIDS Therapy Evaluation in the Netherlands (ATHENA) cohort. Read more