TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Female
KW - HIV Infections
KW - HIV-1
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Morbidity
AU - Frommel D
AU - Tekle-Haimanot R
AU - Verdier M
AU - Negesse Y
AU - Bulto T
AU - Denis F
AB - <p>Between 1988 and 1992 three cross-sectional surveys for antibodies to HIV were done in 644 Ethiopian patients with histologically proven leprosy. Whereas the frequency of HIV-1 infection gradually increased from 3.2% to 6.5%, the clinical presentation, number of new patients, and frequency of relapse did not differ between HIV negative and positive patients. Thus HIV appears unlikely to have a significant impact on the incidence of leprosy in sub-Sahelian populations.</p>
BT - Lancet (London, England)
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7912768?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1994 Jul 16
DO - 10.1016/s0140-6736(94)92760-x
IS - 8916
J2 - Lancet
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Between 1988 and 1992 three cross-sectional surveys for antibodies to HIV were done in 644 Ethiopian patients with histologically proven leprosy. Whereas the frequency of HIV-1 infection gradually increased from 3.2% to 6.5%, the clinical presentation, number of new patients, and frequency of relapse did not differ between HIV negative and positive patients. Thus HIV appears unlikely to have a significant impact on the incidence of leprosy in sub-Sahelian populations.</p>
PY - 1994
SP - 165
EP - 6
T2 - Lancet (London, England)
TI - HIV infection and leprosy: a four-year survey in Ethiopia.
VL - 344
SN - 0140-6736
ER -