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All study subjects received pre- and post-HIV test counseling from trained counselors and received the standard management for HIV-1 infection available in Uganda at the time of the study, which included treatment of oral thrush, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and recurrent bacterial infections.
Barleria lupulina is well known in Thai folk medicine as an antiinflammatory, and is used against snakebites and varicella zoster virus lesions and showed activity against five clinical isolates of herpes simplex virus type 2 [ 57 ] . Compounds found in the leaves of Barleria lupulina are barlerin, acetylbarlerin, shanzhiside methyl ester, acetylshanzhiside methyl ester, ipolamiidoside and iridoid glucosides [ 58 ] . An antibiotic and immunostimulant protein was reported from the plant and other species and patented [ 57 ] .
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a chronically painful condition that is a complication of shingles (acute herpes zoster), a recurrence of the varicella-zoster virus, which initially causes chickenpox.
There was no statistically significant difference between males and females in the frequency and previous duration of symptoms of tuberculosis (cough, fevers, hemoptysis and sweats) and other HIV-infection-associated conditions (herpes zoster, diarrhea, genital ulcers and thrush), and Karnofsky performance scores at baseline.
Despite advances in antiviral therapy during acute herpes zoster and the more recent introduction of vaccination against varicella zoster, PHN continues to be a significant clinical problem, with 10–20% of patients developing persistent neuropathic pain after acute herpes zoster reactivation.
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