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HIV/AIDS Epidemiology

More undiagnosed HIV infections in fall/winter than summer in hospital patients

Published in Blood Weekly, July 7th, 2005

There are more undiagnosed HIV infections in the fall and winter than in the summertime patients admitted to hospitals.

In a recently published study, investigators in the United States conducted a cross-sectional blinded survey to "examine the seroprevalence of undiagnosed HIV and variation by season among patients admitted to the general internal medicine (GIM) and trauma services of two urban hospitals."

"Residual serological specimens were obtained for unique patients aged 17 to 65 to study services in summer (June 16 to September 4, 2001) and fall to winter (November 1, 2001 to January 8,2002). Hospital files provided data on demographics,...

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