{"id":14712,"date":"2018-09-26T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14712"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:58:05","slug":"is-hiv-reinfection-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14712","title":{"rendered":"Is HIV reinfection a myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi<\/p>\n

Thanks for your feedback which is always appreciated.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately though, reinfection is not a myth. It is easily possible because HIV isn’t a single fixed virus. Even though infection is often with a single virus, this develops and changes within everyone until we all have a soup of slightly different types of HIV.<\/p>\n

There are already about 30 major HIV sub-types (called clades) that have significant differences, These could only have occurred by reinfection. Sub-types A, B, C and D etc have structural differences that sometimes affects how quickly HIV progresses or how drug resistance develops.<\/p>\n

So reinfection not only occurs but might be very common if not on ART.<\/div>\n
https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/16330<\/a><\/div>\n
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However, the clinical implications are only if there is drug resistance. These cases are much more rare, but they are important enough to have been published many times.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/1692<\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/31699<\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/255<\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/11691<\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/11244<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This Q&A service has answered many questions online on this over the years:<\/div>\n
https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/reinfection-with-hiv<\/a><\/div>\n

The good news is that having an undetectable viral load with stop reinfection just as well as it stops infection ie reducing the risk to zero.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I was wondering why does your site mention reinfection\/superinfection?<\/p>\n

I can’t see how it is possible to be infected with the same virus, more than once.\u00a0Your book and site is generally very useful, but if this is just a myth it just adds to the taboo surrounding HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-reinfection-with-hiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}