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Is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rather than cytomegalovirus the cause of retinitis and colitis in HIV-infected patients?

April 26, 2017cause colitis cytomegalovirus HIV-infected Human Immunodeficiency Patients Retinitis virus

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Is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rather than cytomegalovirus the cause of retinitis and colitis in HIV-infected patients?

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Morris DJ Department of Pathological Sciences, University of Manchester Medical School, United Kingdom. In the absence of proof that cytomegalovirus is the cause of colitis and retinitis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, it is proposed that HIV plays a direct role in the causation of these diseases. Clinical and epidemiologic evidence is cited to support this hypothesis. A direct role for HIV in the etiology of retinitis and colitis in HIV-infected patients could have important implications for antiviral chemotherapy in these diseases.