Molecular and Clinical Profiles of Human Pegivirus Type 1 Infection in Individuals Living with HIV-1 in the Extreme South of Brazil

Table 2

Analysis of the mean HIV-1 VL and CD4+ T-cell counts stratified by HPgV-1 subtypes 2a and 2b and HPgV-1 molecular status among ART-naïve subjects.

People living with HIV-1	Variables
		HIV-1 VL		CD4+ cell counts
		(copies/ml)		(cells/mm^3)
	N	Mean	p	Mean	p
		rank		rank
HPgV-1; subtype 2a	19	24	0.04^#	16	0.03
HPgV-1; subtype 2b	21	16		24
HPgV-1; positive	40	30	0.08	41	0.02
HPgV-1; negative	30	40		29

Mann-Whitney U-Test. Mean ranks.
^#Statistically significant results are indicated in bold.