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Heterosexual transmission route most frequent among newly diagnosed HIV patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, August 29th, 2005

Heterosexual transmission route is the most frequent among newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients.

"The aims of this study were to describe the process of implementation of the PISCIS cohort, and to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics and trends of antiretroviral treatment (ART) among patients enrolled from 1998 through 2003.

"HIV-infected patients aged {{>=}}16 years from 10 Catalonian hospitals and one Balearic Islands hospital were enrolled in a prospective cohort study," investigators in Spain report.

"Analysis were done using the Mantel's chi2 test for trend. A total of 5,968 patients (mean...

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