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- Title
Seroprevalence of HIV-Type 1 in a Northern California Health Plan Population: An Unlinked Survey.
- Authors
Hiatt, Robert A.; Capell, Frank J.; Ascher, Michael S.
- Abstract
We conducted an unliked seroprevalence survey for human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV 1) of 9821 persons who had a routine personal health appraisal examination in 1989 while members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in northern California. An outside laboratory performed enzyme immunoassay (EIA) analyses, and the California Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Laboratory confirmed EIA-reactive samples by immunofluorescent assay and Western blot assay. Only 20 specimens (0.2%) were confirmed as positive, and 18 were form men. These data suggest that, at the time of this survey, HIV-1 infection was not widespread in the northern California population represented by this health plan membership.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; HIV infections; HEALTH surveys; IMMUNODIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KAISER Permanente Medical Care Program (Company)
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1992, Vol 82, Issue 4, p564
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.82.4.564