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COVID-19 severity and in-hospital mortality in an area with high HIV prevalence
2022-01-04
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: HIV is moderate risk factor for developing severe COVID-19 and is associated with increased risk of COVID-19 mortality. HIV infection causes immune dysregulation characterised by progressive lymphopenia, chronic immune activation, immunological senescence, and T cell exhaustion. These changes are partly reversed by effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), which r...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ef073161-de52-59bd-a2b9-0ca5e0c67265
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1156502/v2
