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A Avram

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[The incidence of anti-HIV antibodies in hospitalized patients in a tuberculosis clinic].

HIV antibody prevalence was studied in 1274 patients, including 150 children, hospitalized in phthisiology services. The sixteen EIA positive samples were confirmed by the Western blot test (1.25%). The other seventeen EIA positive samples gave undetermined results in W.B. In children, antibody incidence was 7.33% versus 0.45% only in adults: this ratio seems to be characteristic for AIDS endemia in Romania, where parenteral transmission is the quasi unique way of HIV infection dissemination in children. The presence of nonspecific multiple bands in the gp 41 region was noted on seven of the seventeen undetermined samples, which is to confirm the reports about the presence of W.B. detectable anti-HIV antibodies cross-reacting with anti-mycobacterial antibodies.

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