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HIV-1-prevalence in fatalities from Hamburg, Germany
U Lockemann1, W Schulz-Schaeffer, F Wischhusen
1Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Hamburg, Germany.
International Journal of Legal Medicine
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The HIV-status of 3999 fatalities (aged 1-60 years) examined at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Hamburg from 1989-1992 was tested. Former predictions of an enormous increase of HIV-infections, especially in the risk group of IVDA (intravenous drug addicts), did not come true. HIV-screening of fatalities is an instructive additional method of gaining information about the epidemiological development of HIV-infections.