Document 0947
 DOCN  M94A0947
 TI    HIV seroprevalence among psychiatric patients in Tokyo.
 DT    9412
 AU    Igarashi Y; Horita N; Mizutani Y; Hieda M; Kaneko T; Tokyo Metropolitan
       Matsuzawa Hospital, Japan.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(2):244 (abstract no. PC0337). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94371628
 AB    OBJECTIVE: In psychiatric patients there are some groups who have great
       risk of HIV infection. Nevertheless data are not yet available on HIV
       prevalence among the mentally disordered patients in Japan. METHODS:
       Subjects were the mentally disordered patients who might have risk
       factors of HIV infection at Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital from
       February 1987 to December 1993. We tested for HIV-I antibodies by
       enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and if positive we confirmed
       by the Western blot assay. Moreover we carried out chart review study of
       these subjects about hepatitis B surface antigen (HBV), hepatitis C
       antibody (HVC), rapid plasma reagin test (RPR), Treponema pallidum
       hemagglutination test (TPHA), and their histories of homosexual behavior
       and use of intravenous drug. RESULTS: We tested 1701 subjects and only 3
       patients were seropositive both ELISA and Western Blot assay. All of 3
       patients had histories of homosexual behavior. There were no patients
       who were seropositive because of sharing of injection drug needles.
       DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The result indicated that HIV seroprevalence
       of mentally disordered patients in Tokyo was very low at present, and
       the greatest risk factor of HIV infection was homosexual behavior.
 DE    Blotting, Western  Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay  Homosexuality
       Human  *HIV Seroprevalence  Mental Disorders/*COMPLICATIONS
       Tokyo/EPIDEMIOLOGY  MEETING ABSTRACT

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