Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 199 cases of HIV/AIDS patients

VernacularTitle:199例HIV感染者及艾滋病患者流行病学及临床特征分析
Author: Hongjie OU ; Juanjuan WANG ; Jiajun LIU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Epidemiology
From: Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2013;12(10):831-832
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: During the period of January 2006 to December 2012 at our department,retrospective analyses of epidemiological and clinical data were performed for 199 newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS inpatients and outpatients.The male-to-female ratio was 3.78∶ 1.Their age range was 20-40 years.Migrant workers accounted for a large proportion of infection.Sexual contact was a major route of transmission and it accounted for 88.4％.Most of them had non-marital sexual contact.And all infected marital sexual contacts were women.Asymptomatic patients accounted for 55.8％.Pulmonary infection was the most common clinical manifestation.There were more males than females locally.Most of them were young and middleaged.Sexual contact was a major route of transmission.Out-of-town migrant population was important for transmission.