• Leonardo Calza, Isabella Bon, Marina Tadolini, Marco Borderi, Vincenzo Colangeli, Lorenzo Badia, Gabriella Verucchi, Giada Rossini, Caterina Vocale, Paolo Gaibani, Pierluigi Viale, and Luciano Attard.
• Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, "Alma Mater Studiorum" University of Bologna, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, via G. Massarenti 11 - I-40138, Bologna, Italy. leonardo.calza@unibo.it.
• Infection. 2021 Apr 1; 49 (2): 333-337.

BackgroundSince the end of February 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak rapidly spread throughout Italy and other European countries, but limited information has been available about its characteristics in HIV-infected patients.MethodsWe have described a case series of patients with HIV infection and COVID-19 diagnosed at the S.Orsola Hospital (Bologna, Italy) during March and April, 2020.ResultsWe reported a case series of 26 HIV-infected patients with COVID-19. Nineteen subjects were men, the median age was 54 years, 73% of patients had one or more comorbidities. Only 5 patients with interstitial pneumonia were hospitalized, but there were no admissions to intensive care unit and no deaths.ConclusionsIn our experience, COVID-19 associated with HIV infection had a clinical presentation comparable to the general population and was frequently associated with chronic comorbidities.

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