ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN HLA FREQUENCIES AND PATHOGENIC FEATURES OF HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS TYPE-1 INFECTION IN SEROCONVERTERS FROM THE AMSTERDAM-COHORT-OF-HOMOSEXUAL-MEN
ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN HLA FREQUENCIES AND PATHOGENIC FEATURES OF HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS TYPE-1 INFECTION IN SEROCONVERTERS FROM THE AMSTERDAM-COHORT-OF-HOMOSEXUAL-MEN
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DOI:
10.1093/infdis/169.6.1244
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发表时间:
1994-06-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
MIEDEMA, F
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作者:
KLEIN, MR;KEET, IPM;MIEDEMA, F
HLA-disease associations may be important for understanding the pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Therefore, 106 homosexual men from the Amsterdam Cohort Study on AIDS with a known date of HIV-1 seroconversion were serologically typed for HLA. Several significant associations between HLA type and pathogenic features of HIV-1 infection were observed: Subjects with fever and skin rash during primary HIV-1 infection showed an increased frequency of HLA-B62 (relative risk [RR], 5.8; P =.005). The frequency of HLA-B35 was increased in subjects with a rapid decline in CD4(+) T lymphocytes (RR, 3.2; P =.021). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis revealed a significant association between HLA-B35 and a decrease in CD4(+) cells to