Serum Levels of Soluble CD40 Ligand and Neopterin in HIV Coinfected Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Visceral Leishmaniasis Patients

Serum Levels of Soluble CD40 Ligand and Neopterin in HIV Coinfected Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Visceral Leishmaniasis Patients

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) co-infection drastically increases the risk of developing overt visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The asymptomatic Leishmania infection window constitutes an opportunity to identify those HIV patients at highest risk by defining early markers associated with disease sus...

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Main Authors: Wim Adriaensen, Saïd Abdellati, Saskia van Henten, Yonas Gedamu, Ermias Diro, Florian Vogt, Bewketu Mengesha, Emebet Adem, Luc Kestens, Johan van Griensven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
visceral leishmaniasis
kala-azar
HIV
sCD40L
neopterin
asymptomatic
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00428/full

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