Case study of COVID-19 in HIV positive person with history of HCV
17 April 2020. Related: COVID-19: HIV and COVID-19 coinfection, COVID-19.
Simon Collins, HIV i-Base
With so few reports of outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV positive people yet available, case reports are important, in this case in someone with a history of HCV.
This was a 38-year-old Chinese gay man diagnosed with COVID-19 on 25 January who had travelled to Wuhan several weeks earlier. He had been diagnosed with HIV in 2016 with a CD4 count of 84 cells/mm3 and HCV coinfection.
The case included persistently negative SARS-CoV-2 RNA on specimen samplings but positive for plasma anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody although these were delayed.
Ref: Zhao J et al. Early virus clearance and delayed antibody response in a case of COVID-19 with a history of co-infection with HIV-1 and HCV. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa408, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa408. (09 April 2020).
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa408/5818121