RESUMO
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate differences in HIV disease progression in patients infected with HIV subtype B with a GPGR motif in the V3 loop region (B-GPGR) versus the Brazilian subtype B variant with a GWGR motif (B'-GWGR). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients were enrolled in an ongoing cohort study at the University of São Paulo Dermatology Clinic in Sao Paulo, Brazil. V3 serology was performed by enzyme immunoassay with peptides representing two HIV subtype B strains, MN and SF2, and two Brazilian variant B'-GWGR strains. The incidence of AIDS-defining events was calculated, and Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate adjusted risk ratios. RESULTS: Of the samples from 114 patients studied, 23 (20%) were classified as B'-GWGR motif, and 91 (80%) as B-GPGR motif. Patients with T CD4+ cell counts less than 200 cells/mm3 or 200-400 cells/mm3 experienced an increased incidence of AIDS-defining events compared with patients who entered the cohort with T CD4+ cell counts greater than 400 cells/mm3. In a proportional hazard model including age, gender, T CD4+ cell count at entry into the cohort, and V3 serology, GWGR reactivity was associated with a decreased hazard rate for presenting an AIDS-defining condition during follow-up. Three patients in the group with GPGR serology died after experiencing an AIDS-defining event. None of the patients with GWGR serology died during follow-up. DISCUSSION: Survival analysis showed that patients infected with the Brazilian subtype B variant with a GWGR motif in the V3 loop had lower risk, adjusted for initial CD4+ cell count, of AIDS-defining events than patients infected with subtype B-GPGR strains.
Assuntos
Substituição de Aminoácidos , Proteína gp120 do Envelope de HIV/genética , Infecções por HIV/virologia , HIV-1/classificação , HIV-1/patogenicidade , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/genética , Adulto , Motivos de Aminoácidos , Brasil , Estudos de Coortes , Progressão da Doença , Feminino , Anticorpos Anti-HIV/sangue , Proteína gp120 do Envelope de HIV/química , Proteína gp120 do Envelope de HIV/imunologia , Infecções por HIV/fisiopatologia , HIV-1/genética , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/química , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/imunologiaRESUMO
Individuos infectados pelo virus da imunodeficiencia humana (HIV-1) geralmente apresentam infeccoes por multiplos patogenos, dentre eles, os HTLV-I e HTLV-II. Estes foram descritos com frequencia variavel em pacientes com AIDS e portadores assintomaticos do HIV-1, tanto na Europa como no Japao. Este trabalho foi conduzido com o objetivo de determinar a prevalencia de infeccao HTLV-I e -II em portadores assintomaticos do HIV-1 da cidade de Sao Paulo, e comparar os resultados obtidos com os descritos em literatura e os por nos anteriormente publicados. Foi detectada infeccao HTLV em 1,5 por cento dos 266 portadores assintomaticos do HIV-1 e 14 por cento dos 28 casos de AIDS analisados. Com base em dados epidemiologicos foi confirmado como sendo o principal fator de risco para adquirir a coinfeccao HIV/HTLV, o uso de injetaveis