Sentences with phrase «early viral loads»
This can lead to substantially higher early viral loads, which in turn can increase the chance of the infection spreading to the brain and worsen clinical outcome.
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In addition, the investigators found that among the HPTN 052 participants who started antiretroviral therapy early but failed treatment before May 2011, those who had a higher viral load when they joined the study were likely to develop resistance to their antiretroviral drugs.
«Despite early differences in viral load among men and women, as time went on, both men and women had a similar risk of developing AIDS,» says Timothy Sterling, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, which participated in the study.
However, the new, larger study found that the effect of viral replication capacity was very early after infection, and was independent of both initial viral load and whether individuals carried certain protective variants of immune genes called HLA that positively influence immune responses to HIV.
Villamor, E., Aboud, S., Koulinska, I. N., Kupka, R., Urassa, W., Chaplin, B., Msamanga, G., and Fawzi, W. W. Zinc supplementation to HIV -1-infected pregnant women: effects on maternal anthropometry, viral load, and early mother - to - child transmission.