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- Title
Transfusion-associated HIV infection in Mexico related to paid blood donors; HIV epidemic.
- Authors
Volkow, Patricia; Velasco, Silvia Ruiz; Mueller, Nancy; Ponce de Leon, Samuel; Sierra-Madero, Juan Gerardo; Sada, Eduardo; Soto, José Luis; Perez-Ancona, Franz; Ruiz-Palacios, Guillermo; Castillo, José Ramón; Mohar, Alejandro
- Abstract
The objective of the study was to describe the clinical, epidemiological profile and conditional incubation period in a group of transfusion-associated HIV-infected (TAHI) patients seen in five national tertiary care centres in Mexico from 1983 to April 1998. Date of transfusions, AIDS diagnoses, opportunistic infections and malignancies were collected. The incubation period was estimated through a non-parametric conditional analysis. One hundred and fifty-seven TAHI cases were analysed. The frequency of TAHI by year of transfusion was: 0.6% in 1980 and 1981, 4.5% in 1984, 22.4% in 1985, 54.5% in 1986, 10.3% in 1987, 0.6% in 1988, 1.9% in 1989 and 1990, 1.3% in 1993 and 0.6% in 1994 and 1996. The median incubation period was 4.3 years. A well-defined epidemic period of HIV-infection among blood-recipients was identified that coincided with the HIV-epidemic among paid donors. TAHI patients in Mexico developed AIDS in a shorter time than that described for other populations.
- Subjects
MEXICO; HIV infection transmission; BLOOD donors; HIV-positive persons; AIDS patients; BLOOD transfusion; EPIDEMICS
- Publication
International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2004, Vol 15, Issue 5, p337
- ISSN
0956-4624
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1258/095646204323012841