1. Increased incidence of leprosy following HAART initiation: a manifestation of the immune reconstitution disease
- Author
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Dominique Sainte-Marie, Mathieu Nacher, Pierre Couppié, Christian Marty, Valérie Domergue, Tania Vaz, E. Clyti, and Myriam El Guedj
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Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Immunology ,HIV Infections ,Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome ,Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome ,Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active ,Leprosy ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Humans ,AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Hazard ratio ,virus diseases ,Retrospective cohort study ,medicine.disease ,Confidence interval ,Surgery ,French Guiana ,Infectious Diseases ,Female ,business ,Epidemiologic Methods ,Cohort study - Abstract
A retrospective cohort study was conducted to determine whether the incidence of leprosy varied with the duration of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Between 1992 and 2006, seven cases of leprosy were observed. The incidence of leprosy in untreated patients was 0.7 per 1000 person-years, 13 per 1000 person-years in persons receiving HAART for more than 3 months and 0.9 per 1000 person-years for persons receiving HAART for more than 3 months. The adjusted hazard ratio was 18.5 (95% confidence interval, 1.6-217) with P = 0.02. In tropical areas where HAART is increasingly available, physicians should be aware of the possibility of incident leprosy shortly after HAART initiation.
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- 2009