Regional Differences in the Prevalence of Major Opportunistic Infections among Antiretroviral-Naive Human Immunodeficiency Virus Patients in Japan, Northern Thailand, Northern Vietnam, and the Philippines.

ABSTRACT: To identify regional differences in the distribution of opportunistic infections (OIs) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients in Asia, the medical records of antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve patients who attended the following tertiary hospitals from 2003 to 2011 were reviewed: Nagoya Medical Center (NMC, Nagoya, Japan), Lampang Hospital (LPH, Lampang, northern Thailand), Bach Mai Hospital (BMH, Hanoi, northern Vietnam), and Philippine General Hospital (PGH, Manila, Philippines). Logistic regression analyses were performed to identify associations between country of origin and risk of major OIs. In total, 1,505 patients were included: NMC, N = 365; LPH, N = 442; BMH, N = 384; and PGH, N = 314. The median age was 32 years, and 73.3% of all p

SUBMITTER: Gangcuangco LMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5508895 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature