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Imported malaria: a 20-year retrospective study from a tertiary public hospital in Brussels, Belgium Institute of Tropical Medicine

M Leys, Emmanuel Bottieau, Javiera Rebolledo, Charlotte Martin
Background
Malaria continues to cause a significant number of infections in non-endemic regions. In this paper, we describe the epidemiological trend and morbidity of imported malaria diagnosed in a tertiary hospital in Brussels.

Methods
We conducted a retrospective study describing a cohort of malaria episodes (in- and outpatients) at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint-Pierre from 1998 to 2017. Epidemiological and ...

Impact of HIV-1 infection on the humoral immune response to yellow fever vaccination: contribution to the development of a yellow fever vaccination schedule for patients living with HIV Institute of Tropical Medicine

Charlotte Martin
Since the advent of modern and universal ART in our countries, PLWH have a life expectancy and lifestyle comparable to the general population. Many of them are travelling, either for tourism or to visit friends and relatives (VFR), including to yellow fever (YF) endemic destinations. They are therefore likely to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Since 2016, WHO guarantees administrative validity for life after YF vaccination, except for PLWH ...

Do people living with HIV travel safely? Assessment of travel patterns and advice-seeking behaviour in a cohort of people living with HIV in Belgium Institute of Tropical Medicine

Charlotte Martin, Emmanuel Bottieau, Marc Delforge, Nicolas Dauby

OBJECTIVES: Pre-travel counselling has demonstrated its efficacy in decreasing travel-related health complications. The current profile of people living with HIV (PLWH) in Europe [increasing age, visiting friends and relatives (VFR)] makes pre-travel counselling crucial. We aimed to survey the self-reported travel patterns and advice-seeking behaviour among PLWH followed up at the HIV Reference Centre (HRC) of Saint-Pierre Hospital, ...

Seroconversion and antibody persistence after yellow fever vaccination in people living with HIV: impact of baseline HIV viral load and yellow fever seropositivity Institute of Tropical Medicine

Charlotte Martin, Eric Florence, Cristina Domingo, Marc Delforge, Stéphane De Wit, Nicolas Dauby

BACKGROUND: Data on seroconversion rates following yellow fever (YF) vaccine and effect of revaccination in people living with HIV (PLWH) are scarce. We aimed at determining key factors for seroconversion after YF vaccine in PLWH and the role of preexisting neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) at vaccination.

METHODS: A retrospective cross-sectional study at several timepoints in two Belgian AIDS Reference Center. For each individual, ...