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HIV patients description and serologic results |
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| Characteristic |
N total (%) (340 patients) |
Positive to Bartonella N (%) (76 patients) |
Negative to Bartonella N (%) (264 patients) |
P-value |
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| Sex |
0.611 |
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| Female |
82 (24.1) |
20 (26.3) |
62 (24.4) |
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| Male |
258 (75.9) |
56 (73.7) |
202 (78.3) |
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| Immunitary state |
0.368 |
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| ≤ 200 cell/ml |
47 (13.8) |
7 (9.2) |
40 (15.2) |
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| > 200 cell/ml |
293 (86.2) |
69 (90.8) |
224 (84.8) |
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| AIDS 1 |
0.820 |
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| Yes |
102 (30) |
22 (28.9) |
80 (30.3) |
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| No |
238 (70) |
54 (71.1) |
189 (69.7) |
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| Drugs abuse |
0.401 |
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| Yes |
196 (57.6) |
47 (61.8) |
149 (56.4) |
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| No |
144 (42.4) |
29 (38.2) |
115 (43.6) |
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| Alcohol |
0.704 |
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| Yes |
97 (28.5) |
23 (30.2) |
74 (28.0) |
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| No |
243 (71.5) |
53 (69.7) |
190 (72) |
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| HBV 2,3 |
17 (5) |
3 (3.94) |
14 (5.3) |
0.449 |
| HCV4 |
170 (50) |
39 (51.3) |
37 (48.7) |
0.795 |
| Municipality (inhab) |
0.667 |
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| >50000 |
194 (57.0) |
45 (59.2) |
149 (56.4) |
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| <50000 |
146 (43.0) |
31 (40.8) |
115 (43.6) |
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| Transmission group |
0.390 |
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| Heterosexual |
62 (18.2) |
11 (14.5) |
51 (19.3) |
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| Homosexual |
15 (4.4) |
1 (1.3) |
14 (5.3) |
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| IDU 5 |
194 (57.1) |
47 (61.8) |
147 (55.7) |
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| Bisexual |
5 (1.5) |
2 (2.6) |
3 (1.1) |
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| Vertical |
3 (0.9) |
0 (0) |
3 (0.9) |
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| Unknown |
61 (18) |
15 (19.7) |
46 (17.4) |
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1: AIDS criteria: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) category C; 2: Hepatitis B virus infection; 3: Fisher Exact test; 4: Hepatitis C virus infection ; 5: Injection drug user. | ||||
Pons et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:58 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-58 |
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