Int J Med Sci
2021; 18(3):846-851.
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Similarities and differences between HIV and SARS-CoV-2
Francisco Illanes-Álvarez*, Denisse Márquez-Ruiz*, Mercedes Márquez-Coello, Sara Cuesta-Sancho✉, José Antonio Girón-González✉
Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain. Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias Biomédicas de la Provincia de Cádiz (INiBICA). *These authors contributed equally to this work.
✉ Corresponding authors: Sara Cuesta-Sancho & José Antonio Girón-González contributed equally to this work. Sara Cuesta-Sancho, Unidad de Investigación, Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda Ana de Viya 21, 11009 Cádiz, Spain. E-mail: sara.cuestaes; José A. Girón-González, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda Ana de Viya 21, 11009 Cádiz, Spain. E-mail: joseantonio.girones.More
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Illanes-Álvarez F, Márquez-Ruiz D, Márquez-Coello M, Cuesta-Sancho S, Girón-González JA. Similarities and differences between HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Int J Med Sci 2021; 18(3):846-851. doi:10.7150/ijms.50133. https://www.medsci.org/v18p0846.htm
In the last 50 years we have experienced two big pandemics, the HIV pandemic and the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2.
Both pandemics are caused by RNA viruses and have reached us from animals. These two viruses are different in the transmission mode and in the symptoms they generate. However, they have important similarities: the fear in the population, increase in proinflammatory cytokines that generate intestinal microbiota modifications or NETosis production by polymorphonuclear neutrophils, among others. They have been implicated in the clinical, prognostic and therapeutic attitudes.
Illanes-Álvarez, F., Márquez-Ruiz, D., Márquez-Coello, M., Cuesta-Sancho, S., Girón-González, J.A. (2021). Similarities and differences between HIV and SARS-CoV-2. International Journal of Medical Sciences, 18(3), 846-851. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijms.50133.
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Illanes-Álvarez, F.; Márquez-Ruiz, D.; Márquez-Coello, M.; Cuesta-Sancho, S.; Girón-González, J.A. Similarities and differences between HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Int. J. Med. Sci. 2021, 18 (3), 846-851. DOI: 10.7150/ijms.50133.
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Illanes-Álvarez F, Márquez-Ruiz D, Márquez-Coello M, Cuesta-Sancho S, Girón-González JA. Similarities and differences between HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Int J Med Sci 2021; 18(3):846-851. doi:10.7150/ijms.50133. https://www.medsci.org/v18p0846.htm
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Illanes-Álvarez F, Márquez-Ruiz D, Márquez-Coello M, Cuesta-Sancho S, Girón-González JA. 2021. Similarities and differences between HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Int J Med Sci. 18(3):846-851.
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