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ArticleMicroorganisms2022

The Clinical Features and Immunological Signature of

Fred Stephen Sarfo, Albert Dompreh, Shadrack Osei Asibey, Richard Boateng, Felix Weinreich, Edmund Osei Kuffour, Betty Norman, Veronica Di Cristanziano, Hagen Frickmann, Torsten Feldt and 1 more

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Article in Microorganisms, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Fred Stephen SarfoDepartment of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi 00233, Ghana.
Albert DomprehDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi 00233, Ghana.
Shadrack Osei AsibeyDepartment of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi 00233, Ghana.
Richard BoatengDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi 00233, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0003-3599-9136
Felix WeinreichDepartment of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9173-7072
Edmund Osei KuffourLaboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Betty NormanDepartment of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi 00233, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-4075-5972
Veronica Di CristanzianoInstitute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1604-8386
Hagen FrickmannDepartment of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8967-9528
Torsten FeldtClinic of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Kirsten Alexandra EberhardtDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1002-0326
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital · GHBundeswehrkrankenhaus · DEDüsseldorf University Hospital · DERockefeller University · USUniversität Hamburg · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Project No. 01KA1102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: There is a paucity of information on the contemporary burden, disease patterns, and immunological profile of people living with HIV who are co-infected with C. cayetanensis in the post-antiretroviral therapy era. Methods: For this cross-sectional study, stool samples of 640 HIV-positive and 83 HIV-negative individuals in Ghana were tested for C. cayetanensis. Additionally, sociodemographic parameters, clinical symptoms, medical drug intake, and immunological parameters were assessed. Results: The prevalence of C. cayetanensis was 8.75% (n = 56) in HIV-positive and 1.20% (n = 1) in HIV-negative participants (p = 0.015). Within the group of HIV-positive participants, the prevalence reached 13.6% in patients with CD4+ T cell counts below 200 cells/µl. Frequencies of the clinical manifestations of weight loss and diarrheal disease were significantly higher in patients with C. cayetanensis compared to those without co-infection (36.36% vs. 22.59%, p = 0.034 and 20.00% vs. 4.90%, p < 0.001, respectively). The expression of markers of immune activation and exhaustion of T lymphocyte sub-populations was significantly elevated in patients colonized with C. cayetanensis. Conclusions: In the modern post-combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) era, the acquisition of C. cayetanensis among PLWH in Ghana is driven largely by the immunosuppression profile characterized by high expression of markers of immune activation and immune exhaustion.

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Africacyclosporiasisdiarrheaenteric infectionepidemiologyimmunodeficiencyparasiteSub-Sahara

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