Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "HIV superinfection (also called HIV reinfection) is a condition in which a person with established human immunodeficiency virus infection acquires a second strain of the virus. The second strain co-exists with the first and may cause more rapid disease progression or carry resistance to certain HIV medication.People with HIV risk superinfection by the same actions that would place a non-infected person at risk of acquiring HIV. These include sharing needles and forgoing condoms with HIV-positive sexual partners. For many years superinfection was thought to occur mainly in high-risk populations. However, research from Uganda published in 2012 demonstrated that HIV superinfection occurs at a similar rate to the rate of primary HIV infection in a general heterosexual population. In addition, preliminary results of female bar workers in Kenya presented at the 2012 Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center also found that HIV superinfection occurs at a similar rate to primary HIV infection."@en }
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- HIV_superinfection abstract "HIV superinfection (also called HIV reinfection) is a condition in which a person with established human immunodeficiency virus infection acquires a second strain of the virus. The second strain co-exists with the first and may cause more rapid disease progression or carry resistance to certain HIV medication.People with HIV risk superinfection by the same actions that would place a non-infected person at risk of acquiring HIV. These include sharing needles and forgoing condoms with HIV-positive sexual partners. For many years superinfection was thought to occur mainly in high-risk populations. However, research from Uganda published in 2012 demonstrated that HIV superinfection occurs at a similar rate to the rate of primary HIV infection in a general heterosexual population. In addition, preliminary results of female bar workers in Kenya presented at the 2012 Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center also found that HIV superinfection occurs at a similar rate to primary HIV infection.".