Herpes Zoster in Persons Living with HIV-1 Infection: Viremia and Immunological Defects Are Strong Risk Factors in the Era of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy

• Main Authors: Nathaniel B. Erdmann (Author), Heather A. Prentice (Author), Anju Bansal (Author), Howard W. Wiener (Author), Greer Burkholder (Author), Sadeep Shrestha (Author), Jianming Tang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In a cohort of 4,225 persons living with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection (PLWH) enrolled at a southeastern US clinic, the overall rate of incident herpes zoster (HZ) was 101 per 10,000 person-years (PY) between January 1999 and 2017, which nearly quadruples the rate reported fo...