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Amebic Liver Abscess in HIV infected Patients, Republic of Korea

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Amebic Liver Abscess in HIV infected Patients, Republic of Korea LETTERS 516 Emerging Infectious Diseases www.cdc.gov/eid Vol. 13, No. 3, March 2007 infections (8,9). This rate was even in the lower range of values found among HIV-infected heterosexual persons in industrialized countries (9%27%) (2). Our results therefore suggest that the high seroprevalence rates of HIV and HCV in Africa will not necessarily result in a high prevalence of HIV/HCV coinfection. Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Institut de Recherche pour le Dveloppement. Christian Laurent,* Anke Bourgeois,* Mireille Mpoudi, Christelle Butel,* Eitel Mpoudi-Ngol, and Eric Delaporte* *Institut de Recherche pour le Dveloppement/University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France; and Military Hospital, Yaound, Cameroon References 1. Rockstroh JK, Spengler U. HIV and hepatitis C virus co-infection. Lancet Infect Dis. 2004;4:43744. 2. Alter MJ. Epidemiology of viral hepatitis and HIV co-infection. J Hepatol. 2006;44(1 Suppl):S69. 3. Madhava V, Burgess C, Drucker E. Epidemiology of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet Infect Dis. 2002;2:293302. 4. Laurent C, Bourgeois A, Mpoudi M, Butel C, Peeters M, Mpoudi-Ngol E, et al. Commercial logging and HIV epidemic, rural Equatorial Africa. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10:19536. 5. Laurent C, Henzel D, Mulanga-Kabeya C, Maertens G, Larouz B, Delaporte E. Seroepidemiological survey of hepatitis C virus among commercial sex workers and pregnant women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Int J Epidemiol. 2001; 30:8727. 6. Flamm SL. Chronic hepatitis C virus infection. JAMA. 2003;289:24137. 7. Nerrienet E, Pouillot R, Lachenal G, Njouom R, Mfoupouendoun J, Bilong C, et al. Hepatitis C virus infection in Cameroon: a cohort-effect. J Med Virol. 2005;76: 20814. 8. Hagan H, Thiede H, Des Jarlais DC. HIV/hepatitis C virus co-infection in drug users: risk behavior and prevention. AIDS. 2005;19(suppl 3):S199207. 9. Mohsen AH, Murad ...

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