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. 2023 May;29(5):1015–1019. doi: 10.3201/eid2905.221617

Table. Demographic and clinical characteristics of 2 patients with novel circovirus infection, Yunnan, China* .

Characteristic Patient 1, J030 Patient 2, 347
Sex Male Male
Ethnicity Jingpo Han
Occupation Farmer Farmer
Marriage status Married Single
Risk behaviors (drug used) IDU (heroin) IDU (heroin)
Syringe or needle sharing Yes Yes
Year of sampling 2009 2009
Year of 1st HIV-1 diagnosis 2005 1996
HIV-1† +
HCV† + +
HuCV2 + +
Other infections
AIDS symptoms No No
CD4+ cell count, cells/mm3 554 635
HAART No Yes
Year of death 2010 2014
Cause of death Unknown Non–AIDS-related
HAART No Yes

*HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HuCV2, human-associated circovirus 2; injection drug use; +, positive; –, negative or below detection limit. †Nucleic acid detection (quantitative PCR and next-generation sequencing) of the sample collected in 2009, as described in a previous study (8).