Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2013;12(10):831-832

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1671-7368.2013.10.021

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

Hongjie OU ; Juanjuan WANG ; Jiajun LIU

Keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Epidemiology

Country

China

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.