Are HIV patients undertreated?
The prevalence of CRFs remains high in an HIV-infected population. CRF management of HIV-infected patients deserves further improvement.
Resistance to the constitutively expressed hbetaD-1 may assist treponemes in initial colonization of epithelial surfaces, while resistance to the inducible hbetaD-2 and -3 would allow some treponemes to survive in active periodontal lesions.