HIV Disease :Management of Co-Factors in disease progression
Co-factors that enhance
progression/HIV replication
Co-factors that inhibit
progression/HIV replication
 

Co-Infections

HHV-1/Herpes Simplex Virus-1
HHV-2/Herpes Simplex Virus-2
HHV-3/CMV
HHV-5/Varicella Zoster
HHV-7
Hepatitis C
Mycobacteria
HHV-8/Kaposis Sarcoma Virus
HHV-6a and b
HHV-4a and 4b/Ebstein Bar

GBV-C/Hepatitis G Virus
Bad Nutritional Factors - Low Zinc, low alpha lipoate,low antioxidants Good Nutritional Factors - Zinc, alpha lipoate,antioxidants
Muscle Waisting, Obesity Muscle Building Exercise
Rapidly progressing or Drug resistant Viral genotypes Slowly or nonprogressing Viral genotypes
High NGF levels Low NGF levels
Use of amphetamines 3 or more Anti-viral drug therapy
Psycho-Social Factors (stress, finances, lack of support, non-compliance with medication regimen) Psycho-Social Factors (low stress, good finances, good support, compliance with medication regimen)

Host Genotypes

CCR5 variants,CXCR4 variants, homozygosity of HLA class I alleles, HLA -A 24,HLA-B 18,39,35Px, w6 variants,

APOBEC3G low activity or Vif-high binding variants and CUL5-elongins B, C, + Rbx1 functional complexes,

human topoisomerase high activity variants,

hp32 splicing factor variants,

human RNA Helicase A variants.

TRIM5-alpha low activity variants

Host Genotypes

CCR5 delta32, CCR5 promotor variants, CCR2-v64I, CXCR4 variants,HLA -A 1101 , HLA-B 27, 44, 55, 57-01/03, w4, HLA-DR5, rare HLA supertypes,

APOBEC3G high activity or Vif-low binding variants and/or CUL5-elongins B, C, + Rbx1 nonfunctional complexes,

human topoisomerase low activity variants,

hp32 splicing factor variants,

human RNA Helicase A variants.

TRIM5-alpha high activity variants

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