Patients With Nonsuppressed HIV Infection More Likely To Experience Severe Mpox Infection Compared To Those With Suppressed Or No HIV Infection, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (12/18, Nye) reports, “Among patients with mpox...those with nonsuppressed HIV infection are more likely to experience severe disease than HIV-negative patients and HIV-positive patients with suppressed viral loads, according to study results published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.” In the study, “the rate of severe mpox was highest in patients with nonsuppressed HIV infection (43.3%), followed by those with suppressed HIV infection (18.6%) and those without HIV infection (9.1%).”