Treatment of W. bancrofti (Wb) in HIV/Wb coinfections in South India.

• Main Authors: Kawsar R Talaat (Author), Subash Babu (Author), Pradeep Menon (Author), N Kumarasamy (Author), Jabin Sharma (Author), Jeeva Arumugam (Author), Kalaivani Dhakshinamurthy (Author), Ramalingam Srinivasan (Author), S Poongulali (Author), Wenjuan Gu (Author), Michael P Fay (Author), Soumya Swaminathan (Author), Thomas B Nutman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:The disease course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is often altered by existing or newly acquired coincident infections. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:To assess the influence of pre-existing Wuchereria bancrofti infection on HIV progression, we performed a case-controlled treatment...