title: Yearly number of patients diagnosed with primary HIV-1 infection in France estimated by a capture-recapture approach.
abstract: We used a two-source capture-recapture method to estimate the number of patients diagnosed at the time of primary HIV infection in France between 1999 and 2002. The sources were the French PRIMO cohort and the French Hospital Database on HIV. The estimated number of patients was 325 per year, which represents only 5% (approximately 6000 cases) of all new cases diagnosed each year and only 8% of all new infections (approximately 4000 cases).
authors.affiliation: Inserm U720, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lievre
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deveau
authors.forename: Juliette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gerbe
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Enel
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tran
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Castro
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Costagliola
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016208:Databases, Factual; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017678:Sex Distribution