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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liu, Yan-chun
• Li, Xing-hong
• Li, Xing-wang
• Lun, Wen-hui
• Yan, Hui-wen
• Ge, Meng-liang
• Zhu, Xue-jun

Titel

Study on the association of clinical characteristic, CD4+ and level of HIV viral load among 690 initial HIV-infection

Ist Teil von

• Zhōnghuá liúxíngbìng zázhì, 2007-10, Vol.28 (10), p.1026

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To understand the correlation between CD4+ cell count, HIV viral load (VL) and clinical characteristics among patients when HIV-1 was tested positive and initial AIDS diagnosis was made. 690 HIV-infected cases from Beijing Di-Tan Hospital were included and under a cross sectional study while SPSS statistical method was used. The 690 HIV-infected cases would include 458 males and 232 females with age range from 2-72 years (mean age as 35.3). The modes of transmission showed that: homosexual contact taking up 17.5% while heterosexual was 16.7%. Most of the homosexual-infected ones lived in Beijing and most of them had bachelor or master's degrees. 19.4% of the transmission happened between heterosexual/bisexual couples, suggesting that HIV was transmitted through the "bridge population" while the rest were infected by contaminated blood/plasma. Many of the cases were identified when they lately visited the pre-operation surveillance point in the hospital. Serious immunodeficiency symptoms or signs were discover