Recent pattern of Co-infection amongst HIV seropositive individuals in tertiary care hospital, Kolkata.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opportunistic Infections (OIs) and co-infections are the major cause of deaths amongst HIV infected individuals and this mostly depends upon the risk factors, type of exposure and geographic region. The commonest types of infections reported are tuberculosis, chronic diarrhoea, oral candidiasis, herpes simplex virus-2, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus. Due to the scarcity of OIs data available from this region, we had designed a study to determine the frequency of different OIs amongst HIV seropositive patients.

Methods

Analysis of the different spectrum of OIs/Co-infections were carried out with 204 HIV sero-positive patients (142 males and 62 females) who visited the HIV/AIDS Apex Clinic in a tertiary care hospital from March 2006 to Marc

SUBMITTER: Saha K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3066117 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature