Abstract
In a matched case-control study of the association between coxsackieviruses and cardiac impairment, 24 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-infected children with cardiac impairment were compared with 24 HIV-1-infected control subjects. Serologic evidence of coxsackievirus infection was present in all children, with no significant difference in geometric mean antibody titers between case patients and control subjects. Conditional logistic regression to test for an association between coxsackievirus antibody titer and the presence or absence of cardiac impairment, by any indicator, showed an odds ratio of 1.11 (95% confidence interval, 0.58-2.10; P = .75), indicating no association between coxsackievirus infection and cardiac impairment. Coxsackievirus antibody titers correlated positively with total IgG levels in nonrapid progressors but not in rapid progressors. Paired serum samples taken before and after diagnosis of cardiac impairment in 5 patients showed no evidence of intervening coxsackievirus infection. These results do not identify a causal role for coxsackieviruses for cardiomyopathy in HIV-1-infected children.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1798-1802 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 185 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 15 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Received 28 November 2001; revised 25 February 2002; electronically published 31 May 2002. Financial support: National Institutes of Health (grants HR-96037, HR-96038, HR-96039, HR-96040, HR-96041, HR-96042, HR-96043, RR-00188, RR-00533, RR-00071, RR-00645, RR-00865, and RR-00043). a Study group members are listed after the text. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Hal B. Jenson, University of Texas Health Science Center, Dept. of Pediatrics, MC 7811, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX 78229-3900 ([email protected]).
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