Galvao-Castro B, dos Santos JI, Santana IV, Valadao EJ, Pinto TL; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1990 Jun 20-23; 6: 225 (abstract no. F.C.579).
Advance Laboratory of Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre on AIDS, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the seroprevalence of HIV-1 in selected groups in Salvador, Bahia, a Brazilian city that displays socio-demographic characteristics of large African cities. METHODS: The sera from 1,239 individuals, including 248 sera from hemodialyzed persons, 250 tuberculosis patients, 324 STD clinic attendants, 208 sera from mothers and their newborn infants and 208 healthy young adults, were tested for HIV-1 by ELISA (Organon, Virgo-Electronucleonics and Abbott) and confirmed to be either positive or negative by indirect immunofluorescence and Western blot (Du Pont). Also, the STD clinic attendants were tested in parallel for Treponema pallidum infection by VDRL and FTA. RESULTS: Eight, or 0.64% of the samples tested were confirmed to be positive: hemodialyzed (2/248), tuberculosis (2/250), healthy (0/208), mothers and their newborn infants (2/208) and STD clinic attendants (2/324). In the latter group, 40 (12%) were found to be infected by T.pallidum. CONCLUSIONS: Although HIV-1 infection was first detected in Salvador seven years ago, the prevalence of this pathogen is still low in heterosexuals, even in groups of people with high incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (syphilis).
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Keywords:
- Adult
- Antibodies
- Blotting, Western
- Brazil
- Cities
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption Test
- HIV Antibodies
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- HTLV-I Antibodies
- Humans
- Incidence
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Prevalence
- Seroepidemiologic Studies
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Syphilis
- epidemiology
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UI: 102184507
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