HIV-2 Primary Infection in a French 69-Year-Old Bisexual Man

Nicolas Cazals; Quentin Le Hingrat; Bruno Abraham; Patricia Da Silva; Laure Guindre; Sylvie Goffart; Florence Damond; Benoît Visseaux; Charlotte Charpentier; Sylvie Ranger-Rogez; Diane Descamps

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofy223

HIV-2 Primary Infection in a French 69-Year-Old Bisexual Man

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Sep 11;5(10):ofy223. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy223. eCollection 2018 Oct.

Authors

Nicolas Cazals¹, Quentin Le Hingrat^{2

3}, Bruno Abraham¹, Patricia Da Silva¹, Laure Guindre⁴, Sylvie Goffart⁴, Florence Damond^{2

3}, Benoît Visseaux^{2

3}, Charlotte Charpentier^{2

3}, Sylvie Ranger-Rogez⁵, Diane Descamps^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Service de Médecine Interne, Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier de Brive-la-Gaillarde, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France.
² IAME, UMR 1137, INSERM, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
³ Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France.
⁴ Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Centre Hospitalier de Brive-la-Gaillarde, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France.
⁵ Laboratoire de Virologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Limoges, Limoges, France.

Abstract

More than 1 million individuals, mainly in West Africa, are thought to be infected with HIV-2. Acute HIV-2 infection is rarely observed, only 2 primary infections have been described to date. We report a detailed case of HIV-2 primary infection in a 69-year-old French bisexual Caucasian man, thereby providing valuable insights into HIV-2 early infection.

Keywords: HIV-2; early treatment; primary infection; reservoir.