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[Surveillance of HIV seroprevalence in Mauritania]
B Baidy Lo1, M Adimorty, C Fatimata
1Banque de Sang du Centre Hospitalier National, Nouakchott, Mauritanie.
Bulletin De La Societe De Pathologie Exotique (1990)
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The results of our study in four years, blood donors and tuberculosis patients HIV seroprevalence using ELISA for detection HIV1/HIV2 antibodies and Western-blot for confirmation, indicate that seroprevalence in blood donors is 0.28% without a significant increase tendency. Our data show that 88 HIV seropositive confirmed, 70% were HIV1, 25% HIV2 and 5% double reactivity HIV1/HIV2.