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Immunoglobulins concentration in HIV-infected patients' with viral hepatitis, candidiasis and herpes simplex viral infection
- Narina Sargsyants1Email author and
- Tigran Davtyan1
https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-9-S1-P148
© Sargsyants and Davtyan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
- Published: 25 May 2012
Keywords
- Herpes Simplex
- Candidiasis
- Viral Hepatitis
- Opportunistic Infection
- Humoral Immunity
Introduction
Coinfection with viral hepatitis (VH) and some opportunistic infections (OI) can decrease HIV-infected patients' survival. The purpose of this study was evaluation of humoral immunity factors in the commonest concomitant and OI.
Materials and methods
110 HIV-infected patients were involved in the study. Among them 76% had candidiasis, 74% VH, 23% HSV-infection. Determination of IgG, IgM, and IgA was performed by immune turbidimetry method by using Human test kits, Germany. Statistic analyses were performed by parametric and non-parametric procedures for paired samples T-test.
Results
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Conclusions
Difference in humoral immunity disorders in HIV-infection depend on certain associated infections as well as on their severity.
Authors’ Affiliations
Copyright
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.