title: Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus in an infertile population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody in infertility.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective cross-sectional blind study.
  
  
  METHODS
  An infertility clinic in Barcelona.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three hundred thirty-five consecutive patients (308 infertile women and 27 spontaneous recurrent aborters) were seen between January 1989 and May 1990.
  
  
  METHODS
  Human immunodeficiency virus serostatus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The rate of seropositivity in the group of patients studied was 0.3% (95% confidence interval 0% to 0.9%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further studies are desirable to establish the value of routine HIV testing in infertility patients as a population of women actively seeking pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Clinic i Provincial, C/Casanova, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balasch
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pumarola
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Jové
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Coll
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Vanrell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*