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Chemokine levels and chemokine receptor expression in the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis and cryptococcosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with treated cryptococcal meningitis who start combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) are at risk of further neurological deterioration, in part caused by paradoxical cryptococcosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (C-IRIS). We hypothesized that C-IRIS is associated with alterations of chemokine receptor expression on T cells and chemokine concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that enhance recruitment of T-helper 1 cells and/or myeloid cells to the central nervous system.

Methods

In a prospective study of 128 human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis who received antifungal therapy followed by cART, we examined the proportions of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells expressing CCR5 and/or CXCR3, in CSF and whole blood and the concentrations of CXCL10, CCL2, and CCL3 in stored CSF and plasma.

Results

The proportion of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells expressing CXCR3(+)CCR5(+) and the concentrations of CXCL10, CCL2 and CCL3 were increased in CSF compared with blood at cART initiation (P < .0001). Patients with C-IRIS (n = 26), compared with those with no neurological deterioration (n = 63), had higher CSF ratios of CCL2/CXCL10 and CCL3/CXCL10 and higher proportions of CXCR3(+)CCR5(+)CD8(+)T cells in CSF compared with blood at cART initiation (P = .03, .0053, and .02, respectively).

Conclusion

CD8(+) T-cell and myeloid cell trafficking to the central nervous system may predispose patients to C-IRIS.

SUBMITTER: Chang CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3805241 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Chemokine levels and chemokine receptor expression in the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis and cryptococcosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.

Chang Christina C CC   Omarjee Saleha S   Lim Andrew A   Spelman Tim T   Gosnell Bernadett I BI   Carr William H WH   Elliott Julian H JH   Moosa Mohamed-Yunus S MY   Ndung'u Thumbi T   French Martyn A MA   Lewin Sharon R SR  

The Journal of infectious diseases 20130801 10


<h4>Background</h4>Human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with treated cryptococcal meningitis who start combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) are at risk of further neurological deterioration, in part caused by paradoxical cryptococcosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (C-IRIS). We hypothesized that C-IRIS is associated with alterations of chemokine receptor expression on T cells and chemokine concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that enhance recruitmen  ...[more]

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