[Human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with community-acquired pneumonia: implication of respiratory viruses]

Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2008 Feb;26(2):85-7. doi: 10.1157/13115543.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The role of respiratory viruses in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients has not been extensively investigated. The objective was to study the implication of respiratory viruses in HIV patients with CAP, through a prospective, three-year study in a third-level hospital. Respiratory viruses were implicated in 14 of the 67 cases of CAP diagnosed and were the only microorganism isolated in 8 of them. Evolution of the disease was similar in patients with CAP associated with respiratory virus infection and those with CAP alone. Respiratory virus infection in HIV-infected patients with CAP is not associated with a poorer prognosis.

El papel de los virus respiratorios (VR) en el paciente infectado por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) que presenta una neumonía adquirida en la comunidad (NAC) es poco conocido.

El objetivo de este estudio es determinar la implicación de los VR en la NAC del paciente VIH mediante un estudio prospectivo de 3 años en un hospital terciario.

Se diagnosticaron 67 neumonías, y se detectaron VR en 14, en 8 como únicos microorganismos aislados. Los pacientes con NAC y VR evolucionaron de forma similar a los pacientes con NAC.

La infección por VR en pacientes VIH y NAC no supuso un factor de mal pronóstico evolutivo.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adenovirus Infections, Human / epidemiology
  • Adult
  • Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
  • Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology*
  • Community-Acquired Infections / virology
  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / drug therapy
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Influenza, Human / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Picornaviridae Infections / epidemiology
  • Picornaviridae Infections / virology
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / virology
  • Prognosis
  • Prospective Studies
  • Rhinovirus
  • Superinfection