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| Almeida,Flávia Jacqueline; Zaparoli,Mayra Simioni; Moreira,Denise Helena; Cavalcanti,Jaqueline de Souza; Rodrigues,Rosangela; Berezin,Eitan Naaman; Ferreira,João Leandro de Paula; Sáfadi,Marco Aurélio Palazzi; Brígido,Luis Fernando de Macedo. |
| Management of children with HIV/AIDS is specially challenging. Age-related issues do not allow for direct transposition of adult observations to this population. CXCR4 tropism has been associated with disease progression in adults. The geno2pheno web-base is a friendly tool to predict viral tropism on envelope V3 sequences, generating a false positive rate for a CXCR4 prediction. We evaluated the association of HIV-1 tropism prediction with clinical and laboratory outcome of 73 children with HIV/AIDS in São Paulo, Brazil. The CXCR4 tropism was strongly associated with a lower (nadir) CD4 documented during follow-up (p < 0.0001) and with disease severity (clinical event and/or CD4 below 200 cells/mm3) at the last observation, using commonly applied... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: HIV-1; Children; Viral tropism; Disease progression. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702014000300300 |
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