Danuta Pieniazek,* James Baggs,† Dale J. Hu,* Ghassan M. Matar,‡ Alexander M. Abdelnoor,‡ Jacques E. Mokhbat,‡ Marwan Uwaydah,‡ Abdul Rahman Bizri,‡ Artur Ramos,*§ Luiz M. Janini,*§ Amilcar Tanuri,*§ Carol Fridlund,* Charles Schable,* Leo Heyndrickx,¶, Mark A. Rayfield,* and Walid Heneine*
Carol Tevi-Benissan,* Madeleine Okome,† Maria Makuwa,* Moise Ndong
Nkoume,† Joseph Lansoud-Soukate,* Alain Georges,* Marie-Claude Georges-Courbot,* and
Laurent Belec‡
Emerg Infect Dis 1998 Jan-Mar:4(1);130-1
Between 1996 and 1997, we evaluated the incidence of HIV-2 infection at the Fondation Jeanne Ebori, the second largest hospital in Libreville, capital of Gabon; we found an unexpected high prevalence of HIV-2–infected or HIV-1/HIV-2–dually reactive patients.
A 28-year-old man with HIV infection acquired by sharing injection tools was seen in our outpatient clinic because of intermittent fever, drenching nocturnal sweats, and cough with purulent sputum of 4 months' duration. He also reported a weight loss of 10 kg in the previous 2 months. He had been treated for bronchial infection with an unknown antibiotic in another hospital. After this treatment, respiratory symptoms had improved somewhat, but fever and constitutional symptoms continued.
Introduction of HIV-2 and Multiple HIV-1 Subtypes to Lebanon
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