Case Report
The First Report of HIV-1 Group O Infection in Canada
| Agnès Depatureaux1, Roger LeBlanc2,3, Daniela Moisi1, Bluma Brenner1 and Mark A Wainberg1* | ||
| 1McGill University AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Chemin-Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, H3T 1E2, Québec, Canada | ||
| 2Chronic Viral Illness Service, Montreal Chest Institute, 3650 Rue St-Urbain, Montreal, H2X 2P4, Québec, Canada | ||
| 3OPUS Medical Clinic, 1470 Rue Peel, Tower A, Montreal, H3A 1T1, Québec, Canada | ||
| Corresponding Author : | Mark A Wainberg McGill University AIDS Centre Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Chemin- Côte-Ste- Catherine, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada Tel: 514-340-8260 Fax: 514-340-7537 E-mail: mark.wainberg@mcgill.ca |
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| Received December 06, 2014, Accepted February 26, 2015, Published February 28, 2015 | ||
| Citation: Depatureaux A, LeBlanc R, Moisi D, Brenner B, Wainberg MA (2015) The First Report of HIV-1 Group O Infection in Canada. J Infect Dis Ther 3:203. doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.1000203 | ||
| Copyright: © 2015 Depatureaux A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | ||
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Abstract
We report here the first case of HIV-1 group O in Canada. The patient presented with a progressive decline in CD4+ T lymphocyte count despite an undetectable plasma viral load, due to an inability to detect group O infection by standard techniques. This in turn resulted in a delay in initiation of treatment.
