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Disease Control
Changing pattern of HIV infection described in New Delhi, India, hospital
February 20th, 2005
A report from New Delhi described the changing pattern of HIV infection in a tertiary care hospital there. "HIV seroprevalence was carried out in 42,738 individuals attending the sexually transmitted infection (STI) center of a New Delhi hospital from September 1990 to December 2001. The different epidemiological parameters of the patients in Group 1 (asymptomatic HIV seropositive individuals) and Group 2 (AIDS cases), were compared in four spans A, B, C, D," wrote K. Ray and colleagues, VM Med College. Ray's group found there was a "significant rise in seroprevalence from 0.4 to 4.4% [over] time. The patients in Group 1 were mainly 15-19 years...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2005-02-20)
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