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Volume 334:1202-1203 May 2, 1996 Number 18
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Idiopathic CD4+ T-Lymphocytopenia in an Asymptomatic HIV-Seronegative Woman after Exposure to HIV

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by Ho, D. D.
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To the Editor: CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia is extremely rare in the absence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in asymptomatic persons.1,2 For more than five years we have followed a 30-year-old woman with depletion of CD4+ T lymphocytes who had repeated unprotected sexual contact with an HIV-infected man in whom AIDS later developed. She has not reported intravenous drug use and has received no blood transfusions or therapies known to be associated with T-cell depletion. She has remained asymptomatic.

Serologic tests for antibodies to HIV types 1 and 2 (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays [ELISAs]: recombinant HIV-1 Anticore EIA and HIV-1/HIV-2 EIA Plus . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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