Presence of CXCR4-Using HIV-1 in patients with recently diagnosed infection: Correlates and evidence for transmission

Kristen Chalmet, Kenny Dauwe, Lander Foquet, Franky Baatz, Carole Seguin-Devaux, Bea Van Der Gucht, Dirk Vogelaers, Linos Vandekerckhove, Jean Plum, Chris Verhofstede*

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    Abstract

    Background. The prevalence and correlates of CXCR4-use in recently diagnosed patients and the impact of X4/DM transmission remain largely unknown.Method.Genotypic coreceptor use determination on the baseline sample of 539 recently diagnosed individuals. Correlation of coreceptor use with clinical, viral and epidemiological data and with information on transmission events as obtained through phylogenetic analysis of protease and reverse transcriptase sequences. Results. CXCR4-use was predicted in 12 to 19% of the patients, depending on the interpretative cutoff used. CXCR4-use was correlated with lower CD4 + T cell counts and subtype 01-AE infection. No association with viral load was observed. Seven (11%) of 63 transmission clusters and 4 (31%) of 13 donor-source pairs resulted from X4/DM transmission.Conclusion.The results confirmed the relation between CXCR4-use at diagnosis and low baseline CD4+ T cell counts. Significantly more CXCR4-use was predicted in 01-AE infections, which may impose constraints on the use of CCR5 antagonists in certain regions of the world. Observations from the transmission cluster analysis contradict the hypothesis that R5 viruses are selected at transmission, and support the idea that R5 or X4/DM infections result from a stochastic process.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)174-184
    Number of pages11
    JournalJournal of Infectious Diseases
    Volume205
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2012

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