Surveillance for HIV antibody and antigen in trauma patients.
Studies in a Baltimore emergency room identified the patient with penetrating trauma as having the highest incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I (HIV-1) infection. Anonymous testing over a 15-month period of 165 victims of penetrating trauma presenting to the Medical Center Hospital Emergency Center (San Antonio, Texas) revealed a 0% incidence of HIV-1. This data suggests that HIV-1 trauma patient incidence can be expected to vary between specific geographic areas and patient populations served, independent of community-wide AIDS incidence.
Orr
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Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7838.
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Riester
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Gilcher
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Meltz
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D000328:Adult; D004630:Emergencies; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D015488:HIV Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012307:Risk Factors; D013781:Texas / Q000453:epidemiology; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000097:blood*
D015483:HIV Antibodies; D015488:HIV Antigens