| bloodborne and sexually transmitted infections in drug users in a hospital in buenos aires, argentina. | injection drug users (idus) constitute a population highly vulnerable to infections transmitted by blood or sexual relations. social problems and marginalization hinder idus from accessing the health care system. the rates of prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis c virus, and hepatitis b virus infections in idus are high, and they have become of great concern for the argentinean health care system. an integral frame oriented to identifying the extent of the different individual r ... | 2003 | 14648444 |
| human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and other viral co-infections among young heterosexual men and women in argentina. | infections with hepatitis c virus, (hcv), hepatitis b virus (hbv), and human t lymphotropic type i/ii (htlv-i/ii) virus are commonly found in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1). we conducted a seroepidemiologic study among 174 hiv-positive heterosexuals in buenos aires, argentina in 1999. evidence of exposure to hcv, hbv, and htlv-i/ii was found in 32%, 17%, and 5%, respectively. a higher prevalence of hbv infection was observed among males (33%) compared with fem ... | 2004 | 15306703 |
| htlv-1/2 among high-risk groups in argentina: molecular diagnosis and prevalence of different sexual transmitted infections. | the objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence and characterize the epidemiologic patterns of htlv-1/2 infections and co-infections with hiv, hbv (hepatitis b), hcv (hepatitis c), and treponema pallidum in five different high-risk groups, including injecting drug users (idus), female sex workers (fsws), men who have sex with men (msm), patients with tuberculosis (tb), and patients attending clinics for sexually transmitted infections (stis) in buenos aires, argentina. the htlv-1/2 ... | 2007 | 17935172 |