Human immunodeficiency virus infection in Northern Ireland 1980-1989.
To 31st December 1989, 71 persons are known to have attended medical practitioners in Northern Ireland with a diagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Twenty-one of these persons have had the diagnosis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and 11 have died. The distribution of reports in the "at risk" categories of homosexual/bisexual males, injecting drug users, heterosexual males and females was significantly different (p less than 0.001) from those reported in the United Kingdom as a whole. Of tests for HIV infection carried out in patients attending the genitourinary medicine department of the Royal Victoria Hospital between 1987-1989, 0.16% have been positive. The prognostic value of the T4 lymphocyte count at presentation for the subsequent development of AIDS was significant (p = 0.0011). The commonest AIDS indicator disease diagnosed was Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia which was seen in seven of the 21 patients (33%).
Maw
R D
RD
Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
Connolly
J H
JH
Mayne
E E
EE
McClelland
W
W
Dinsmore
W W
WW
Horner
T
T
Boyd
J S
JS
Colhoun
H M
HM
Doherty
L
L
Simpson
D M
DM
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003625:Data Collection; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D009660:Northern Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors