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ReviewInfection and drug resistance2021

HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Co-Infection: What are the Risks?

Nicola Squillace, Elena Ricci, Elisa Colella, Paolo Bonfanti

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Review in Infection and drug resistance, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. COVID-19 Vaccines and COVID-19 in People Living with HIV.Infectious diseases & clinical microbiology · 2024
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  6. Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: a new tsunami requiring a universal case definition.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicola SquillaceInfectious Diseases Unit ASST-Monza, San Gerardo Hospital-University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7608-6045
Elena RicciFondazione ASIA Onlus, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5279-0444
Elisa ColellaInfectious Diseases Unit ASST-Monza, San Gerardo Hospital-University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4912-148X
Paolo BonfantiInfectious Diseases Unit ASST-Monza, San Gerardo Hospital-University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7289-8823
University of Milano-Bicocca · ITFondazione Roma · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dramatic increase of the global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 infection represents a critical issue that needs to be investigated to evaluate the associated risk factors for acquisition and worse outcome. The interplay between immune activation and immune depression during SARS-CoV-2 infection is an intriguing topic that still needs to be clarified. The role of HIV in SARS-CoV-2 infection is not well defined. Chronic inflammation linked to HIV infection could be a driver for a worse prognosis in people living with HIV (PLWH). We explored the role of HIV as a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity and which factors contributed to a worse prognosis when HIV infection was present. PubMed/MEDLINE was searched for "COVID-19" or "SARS-CoV2" and "HIV" or "AIDS" and ("hospitalization" or "intensive care" or "mechanical ventilation" or "death" OR "mortality"), both in MeSH and as free text in all fields. Our review focused on 21 studies that enrolled at least 40 PLWH. In most studies, HIV infection did not represent a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection. On the contrary, the risk of severe COVID-19 and hospitalization was higher in PLWH. Low CD4 cell count consistently emerged as a risk factor for severe COVID-19. Comorbidities, either in people with or without HIV diagnosis, played a key role, especially because of their early development in PLWH.

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Identifiers

PMID34611416
PMCPMC8487262
OpenAlexW3202158691

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