Primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection: clinical manifestations among women in Mombasa, Kenya
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2000Author
Lavreys, L
Thompson, ML
Martin, HL Jr
Mandaliya, K
Ndinya-Achola Jeckoniah O.
Bwayo, JJ
Kreiss, J
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The occurrence of clinical manifestations associated with primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection was evaluated in a prospective cohort study of female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. Among 103 women who seroconverted to HIV-1, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, arthralgia, myalgia, skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, extrainguinal lymphadenopathy, inguinal lymphadenopathy, and vaginal candidiasis were noted significantly more frequently at visits in which seroconversion first became evident. Eighty-one percent of seroconverting women had >/=1 of these 11 symptoms or signs. Among 44% of the women, the acute illness was severe enough to prevent them from working. Having >/=2 of 6 selected symptoms and signs yielded a sensitivity of 51%, specificity of 83%, positive likelihood ratio of 3.2, and negative likelihood ratio of 0.5 for acute HIV-1 infection. The recognition of primary HIV-1-infection illness in high-risk populations and subsequent risk-reduction counseling could potentially reduce secondary HIV-1 transmission during this highly infectious period
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/10722432http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16771
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Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Mar;30(3):486-90Publisher
Departments of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Biostatistics, University of Washington Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10378]