{"doi":"10.1089/aid.2022.0070","title":"Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Prevalence and Association with Inflammatory Cytokines Among Sexual and Gender Minorities Living With and Without HIV-1 from Lagos, Nigeria","abstract":"Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is common globally and contributes significantly to the risk of acquiring HIV-1, yet these two sexually transmitted infections have not been sufficiently characterized for sexual and gender minorities (SGM) across Sub-Saharan Africa. To help fill this gap, we performed a retrospective study using plasma and serum samples from 183 SGM enrolled at the Lagos site of the TRUST/RV368 cohort in Nigeria, assayed them for HSV-2 antibodies with the Kalon ELISA and plasma cytokines and chemokines with Luminex, and correlated the findings with HIV-1 viral loads (VLs) and CD4 counts. We found an overall HSV-2 prevalence of 36.6% (49.5% and 23.9% among SGM with and without HIV-1, respectively, p < .001). Moreover, HSV-2-positive status was associated with high circulating concentrations of CCL11 among antiretroviral therapy-treated (p = .031) and untreated (p = .015) participants, and with high concentrations of CCL2 in the untreated group (p = .004), independent of VL. Principal component analysis revealed a strong association of cytokines with HIV-1 VL independent of HSV-2 status. In conclusion, our study finds that HSV-2 prevalence among SGM with HIV-1 is twice as high than HSV-2 prevalence among SGM without HIV-1 in Lagos and suggests that this is associated with higher levels of certain systemic cytokines. Additional work is needed to further characterize the relationship between HSV-2 and HIV-1 in SGM and help develop targeted therapies for coinfected individuals.","journal":"AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses","year":2023,"id":384667,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9349,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":791257,"name":"Marlena Plagianos","orcid":"0000-0003-4718-5674","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":367233,"name":"Afoke Kokogho","orcid":"0000-0003-0890-7283","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":367235,"name":"Sylvia Adebajo","orcid":"0000-0002-5933-8044","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":367237,"name":"Rebecca G. 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