Document 2614
 DOCN  M94A2614
 TI    Correlation of HIV infection with hepatitis B and syphilis.
 DT    9412
 AU    Mittal A; Kapur S; Institute of Pathology--ICMR, New Delhi, India.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):264 (abstract no. PB0487). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369961
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To study the association of HIV infection with Hepatitis B
       and Syphilis in blood donors. METHODS: Screening for HIV, Hepatitis B
       surface antigen and syphilis was carried out in 2,31,293 donated blood
       units received from 4 blood banks during the last 5 years. Of these,
       1,27,342 blood units were received from professional blood donors,
       1,03,590 from replacement donors and 341 from voluntary donors. RESULTS:
       ELISA test for HIV showed 379 blood units to be positive on initial
       testing out of which 117 were repeatedly ELISA positive. Of these 117
       samples, confirmatory Western Blot assay has so far been done in 85
       samples and sixty of these were positive for HIV I/II. Of the 60 Western
       Blot confirmed HIV positive blood samples, 37 have so far been tested
       for HBsAg (by ELISA) and syphilis (VDRL and Haemagglutination assay).
       None of the samples were HBsAg positive and four samples were positive
       for syphilis. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: There may be an association of
       syphilis but not Hepatitis B with HIV infection, in blood donors in
       India.
 DE    Blood Banks  Blood Donors/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  Blotting, Western
       Cross-Sectional Studies  *Developing Countries  Enzyme-Linked
       Immunosorbent Assay  Hepatitis B/*COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION
       & CONTROL  Human  HIV Infections/*COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION
       & CONTROL  Incidence  India/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       Syphilis/*COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION & CONTROL  Syphilis
       Serodiagnosis  MEETING ABSTRACT

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