Role of protease inhibitors in preventing recurrent oral candidosis in patients with HIV-infection: A prospective case-control study
Role of protease inhibitors in preventing recurrent oral candidosis in patients with HIV-infection: A prospective case-control study
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10.1097/00126334-199905010-00003
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1999-05-01
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Cassone, A
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Cauda, R;Tacconelli, E;Cassone, A
This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in preventing recurrence of oral candidosis (OC) associated with HIV. A prospective case-controlled observational study was performed in an inner-city university-hospital HIV/AIDS clinic. Ninety-three HIV-positive study subjects with a history of recurrent OC were divided into two groups: protease inhibitors (PI)-treated patients (group 1, n = 30) and non-PI-treated patients (group 2, n = 63). Study subjects were matched for sex, age, stage of HIV infection, and peripheral CD4(+) T-cell counts. The non-PI-treated group was further subdivided into the following three subgroups: HIV-positive study subjects treated with reverse transcriptase inhibitors (RTI; groups 2a and 2c) and HIV-positive study subjects not treated with RTIs (group 2b). Group 2c met the same inclusion criteria as group 2a had but was matched 6 months after the beginning of the study. We also assessed in vitro peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and their lymphoproliferative response, as well as cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) response to Candida-associated antigens in a randomly selected sample of study subjects divided into those treated with PIs and those who were not. During a 1-year follow-up, OC was diagnosed in 2 (7%) PI-treated and 23 (36%) non-PI-treated patients (p