Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among hemophiliacs in Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Authors: | S Kashiwagi J Hayashi H Ikematsu A Noguchi K Ikeda K Kishida M Shirakawa A Takenaka R Mori |
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| Affiliation: | First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka. |
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| Abstract: | To determine when the hemophiliacs in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, first became positive for antibodies, we tested human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies on serum samples obtained from 1976-1987 stored at -30 C. Fifteen out of 64 hemophilia A patients (23.4%), five out of 11 hemophilia B patients (45.5%), but none of 17 patients with von Willebrand's disease (0%) were positive for HIV antibodies. In this series, two with hemophilia A became positive for HIV antibodies for the first time in 1983, and in 1984 another four with hemophilia A and one with hemophilia B became positive. |
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