TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
KW - Female
KW - HIV Infections
KW - HIV Seropositivity
KW - HIV-1
KW - HIV-2
KW - Humans
KW - India
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Mass Screening
KW - Pilot Projects
AU - Jayasheela M
AU - Sharma R N
AU - Sekar B
AU - Thyagarajan S P
AB - <p>In a pilot study, 463 leprosy patients (374 males and 89 females) were investigated for HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies by screening tests. Sera positive by the screening tests were subjected to confirmatory tests. Three cases were confirmed to be positive for HIV, two for HIV-1 and one for HIV-2. All the three positive cases were young males, who had visited commercial sex workers. No correlation was found between the type of leprosy and HIV infection. This is the first report of HIV infection amongst leprosy patients from South India.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7714351?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1994 Oct-Dec
IS - 4
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>In a pilot study, 463 leprosy patients (374 males and 89 females) were investigated for HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies by screening tests. Sera positive by the screening tests were subjected to confirmatory tests. Three cases were confirmed to be positive for HIV, two for HIV-1 and one for HIV-2. All the three positive cases were young males, who had visited commercial sex workers. No correlation was found between the type of leprosy and HIV infection. This is the first report of HIV infection amongst leprosy patients from South India.</p>
PY - 1994
SP - 429
EP - 33
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - HIV infection amongst leprosy patients in south India.
VL - 66
SN - 0254-9395
ER -