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S A Mujeeb

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Prevalence and pattern of HIV infection in Karachi.

Two thousand seven hundred and seventy six subjects comprising 844 high risk and 1932 low risk group were screened for HIV antibodies by ELISA and western blot. Eight subjects from high risk group were HIV positive. They included three prisoners, two sexually promiscuous, two seafarers and one recipient of blood. The highest prevalence of the infection was found in sexually promiscuous group (5.40% +/- 7.40) followed by prisoners (1.64% +/- 1.87), multitransfused patients (1.0% +/- 1.96) and seafarers (0.66% +/- 0.93). No case of HIV infection was found in low risk population group, however, one pregnant women had p24 and p55 antibodies on western blot.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗

Prevalence of HIV-infection among blood donors.

Blood donor screening for HIV antibody was carried out at Blood Transfusion Service of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Sera of 1655 blood donors were tested by Enzyme linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay (Abbott recombinant HIV-1-EIA) from March, 1987 to December, 1989. Initial reactivity was noted in seven cases, of which three were repeatedly reactive. When these were tested by western blot at National Institute of Health, all were reported negative. Thus no HIV positive blood donor was found in the subject population.

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