Nature Communications (Feb 2021)
Data linkage to evaluate the long-term risk of HIV infection in individuals seeking post-exposure prophylaxis
- Frédérique Hovaguimian,
- Huldrych F. Günthard,
- Christoph Hauser,
- Anna Conen,
- Enos Bernasconi,
- Alexandra Calmy,
- Matthias Cavassini,
- Marco Seneghini,
- Alex Marzel,
- Henriette Heinrich,
- Alexandra Scherrer,
- Julien Riou,
- Adrian Spoerri,
- Kurt Schmidlin,
- Suraj Balakrishna,
- Dominique L. Braun,
- Silvana K. Rampini,
- Jan S. Fehr,
- Roger D. Kouyos,
- the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
Affiliations
- Frédérique Hovaguimian
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Huldrych F. Günthard
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Christoph Hauser
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern
- Anna Conen
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, Kantonsspital Aarau
- Enos Bernasconi
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Regional Hospital Lugano
- Alexandra Calmy
- Laboratory of Virology and Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospital
- Matthias Cavassini
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Lausanne University Hospital
- Marco Seneghini
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen
- Alex Marzel
- Research, Teaching and Development, Schulthess Clinic
- Henriette Heinrich
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Alexandra Scherrer
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Julien Riou
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
- Adrian Spoerri
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
- Kurt Schmidlin
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
- Suraj Balakrishna
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Dominique L. Braun
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Silvana K. Rampini
- Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, University of Zurich
- Jan S. Fehr
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- Roger D. Kouyos
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich
- the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21485-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Individuals seeking post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV may represent an important risk group for future HIV infection. Here the authors find HIV infections at long-term follow-up in 22 of 348 men who have sex with men, and 0 of 623 other PEP seekers.
