Decrease in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 load during acute dengue fever

Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Apr 15;36(8):1067-9. doi: 10.1086/374600. Epub 2003 Apr 4.

Abstract

Rather than the expected increase in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) load, there was transient suppression of HIV-1 replication during acute dengue infection in a 29-year-old Thai woman. Acute-phase (but not convalescent-phase) serum samples obtained from an HIV-1-uninfected patient with dengue fever reduced HIV-1 infectivity, as determined by a peripheral blood mononuclear cell assay, suggesting the possibility that HIV-1 replication is suppressed during acute dengue fever, as occurs during some cases of scrub typhus infection and measles.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Dengue / physiopathology*
  • Dengue / virology
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / physiopathology*
  • HIV Infections / virology
  • HIV-1 / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Viral Load