By Marie Rosenthal
A severe, necrotizing form of mpox with a high mortality rate among people with HIV whose CD4 count was less than 200 cells/m3was described at CROI 2023, held in Seattle (presentation 173).
The first key finding that we have is there was a very clear relationship between CD4 count, viral load and outcomes,” said Chloe Orkin, MBBCH, MSc, a professor of HIV medicine in the Center for Immunobiology at the Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, who presented the