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Cerebrospinal fluid HIV viral load may be detectable, despite serum viral load being undetectable, in patients diagnosed with syphilis
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With an increasing proportion of male patients co-infected with syphilis and HIV, the management of these patients has become more relevant. HIV and syphilis both enter the central nervous system early in the course of infection, and have been shown to be present at all stages of the disease. Syphilis is reported to increase the serum HIV viral load (VL) in HIV co-infected patients;1 higher CSF HIV VLs …
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