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Evaluation of immunological indices in HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C in Kazakhstan

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of General Medicine, May 2016
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Evaluation of immunological indices in HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C in Kazakhstan
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International Journal of General Medicine, May 2016
DOI 10.2147/ijgm.s101303
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Nazgul Sarsekeyeva, Bakhyt Kosherova

Abstract

To evaluate immunological indices in HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) who are injecting drug users. The study examined 38 patients coinfected with HIV and CHC who were injecting drug users and 36 patients with HIV/CHC who were not injecting drug users. In the study of immune status, the relative and absolute numbers of CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, CD16+, and CD20+ cells were determined by means of flow cytofluorometry of "FACSCount" using monoclonal antibodies of the company Becton Dickinson. The level of circulating immune complexes in blood serum was determined by means of precipitation in polyethylene glycol solution. It was found that T-cell immunodeficiency was developing in patients coinfected with HIV and CHC. T-cell immunodeficiency was characterized by a decrease in the number of T-helpers, mainly for injecting drug users. At the same time, patients coinfected with HIV and CHC experienced markedly elevated levels of circulating immune complexes, mainly among injecting drug users. The evaluation of immunogram indices in injecting drug users coinfected with HIV and CHC, depending on the stage of HIV infection, revealed a greater degree of immune-suppression of T-helper cells in clinical stage III. Our comprehensive immunological study of patients coinfected with HIV and CHC revealed a pronounced dysfunction of the immune system. The comparison of the immune system indices in patients with HIV/CHC showed a more pronounced T-cell suppression in injecting drug users than in patients with HIV/CHC but who were not injecting drug users.

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Researcher 1 20%
Student > Master 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%
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Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 July 2016.
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#8,683,181
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#433
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#111,433
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of General Medicine
#3
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