GM-CSF Fails to Improve Immune Responses to Booster Hepatitis B Vaccination in HIV-Infected Individuals
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...Numerous studies, from retrospective studies to randomized control trials (RCT), have found a correlation between undetectable HIV RNA, a high CD4 cell count and higher vaccination success.(19,20,23,27,30,60,63,75,93-97,100) The HIV viral load even seems to be more important than the CD4 count [19, 21, 23,], even though a positive correlation between the CD4 cell count at the time of (re)vaccination and the response to vaccination was observed in many studies....
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...Hepatitis B virus (HBV), the leading worldwide cause of chronic liver disease [1,2], shares routes of transmission with Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as manifest by the 30-90% of HIV-infected patients having evidence of prior HBV infection and 10% with chronic infection [3]....
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...Current guidelines recommend HBV vaccination for all HIV-infected persons who do not have evidence of current or past exposure to HBV [9,10]....
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