HIV2 infection: some clinical and epidemiological aspects in Portugal.

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HIV2 infection: some clinical and epidemiological aspects in Portugal.

Int Conf AIDS. 1989 Jun 4-9;5:90 (abstract no. M.A.P.77). Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA5/00023489
Botas J; Tavares L; Carvalho C; Feliciano H; Antunes F; Dep. Inf. Diseases, Hosp. Sta Maria, Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of HIV2 infection in HIV seropositives studied at our Department. METHODS: The charts of 225 HIV seropositives (ELISA and Western blot) were analysed. Tests for HIV2 were performed in HIV1 negatives with disease, sexual partners of HIV2 positives or possibility of infection in Africa. RESULTS: Nineteen (8.4%), 8 women, 11 men, were HIV1 negative and HIV2 positive. They all denied homosexual contacts or IVDU. Only 2 had received blood transfusions (1 man in 1974, in Portugal, and his wife was also positive; another man in 1968, aged 3, in Africa, who has lived in Portugal ever since). Nine, 5 women, 4 men, were from Guinea-Bissau. One man had visited several African countries and his wife was also positive. Four men had been in Africa for military service (2 in Guinea, 1968-69 and 71-73; 2 in Angola, 65-66 and 66-68). One woman, prostitute, could not deny sexual contacts with African men. Eight were asymptomatic carriers, 3 ARC and 8 AIDS. Five of them died. CONCLUSION: HIV2 infection may be more common outside Africa than generally accepted, should be thought in HIV1 negatives suspected of AIDS and excluded in blood donors, at least in those who have ever been in Africa.

Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*EPIDEMIOLOGY Adult Africa/EPIDEMIOLOGY Female Human HIV-1 *HIV-2 Male Portugal/*EPIDEMIOLOGY ABSTRACT
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