Oral lesions in Thai heterosexual AIDS patients: a preliminary study.
OBJECTIVE
To study the types of oral lesions in Thai heterosexual AIDS patients.


METHODS
Cross-sectional study and single centre.


METHODS
Medical ward of the Prince of Songkla University Hospital, Thailand, from June 1994 to May 1995.


METHODS
Heterosexual AIDS patients who had been admitted because of opportunistic infections and/or neoplasms.


METHODS
Types of oral lesions, opportunistic systemic diseases present and drugs in use, as well as the lymphocyte count, were recorded in each patient. Mycological investigations by the oral rinse technique were also performed.


RESULTS
41 patients were examined (32 male, 9 female; aged 19-53 years, median 29 years). Oral lesions were found in 35 (85%) patients as follows: oral candidiasis (31), hairy leukoplakia (3), aphthous ulcer (3), linear gingival erythema (2), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (2) and histoplasmosis (2). CANDIDA ALBICANS: was isolated in 31 patients. There was correlation between the clinical signs of oral candidiasis and the colony-forming units of Candida (Mann-Whitney U test; two-tailed P = 0.0007).


CONCLUSIONS
Oral candidiasis was the most common lesion. It is of interest that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was the only neoplasm detected. We conclude that oral lesions among Thai heterosexual AIDS patients may differ from those in other countries.
Nittayananta
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Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University, Haadyai, Songkhla, Thailand.
Jealae
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Chungpanich
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000328:Adult; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005882:Gingival Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007972:Leukoplakia, Oral / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D016483:Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D019529:Sexuality; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013281:Stomatitis, Aphthous / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology