Seroprevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus HTLV and its associated factors in donors of a blood bank of Medellin-Colombia, 2014-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on HTLV in Colombia is limited; despite being an endemic country there are few studies on the magnitude of this infection. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of HTLV I/II and its associated factors in donors to a blood bank of Medellín Colombia, 2014-2018.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study of 52,159 donors with a secondary information source. Seroprevalence of HTLV I/II was determined with its confidence interval and the population characteristics were described by frequency and summary measures. To explore the associated factors, Pearson's Chi square test, Mann-Whitney U test, crude odds ratios were used and they were adjusted by logistic regression in SPSS 25.0.

Results

88% of the population lived in the metropolitan

SUBMITTER: Cardona-Arias JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690513 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature