Epidemiologic surveillance of human immunodeficiency virus in the industrial city of Siberia.
Int Conf AIDS 1989 Jun 4-9; 5:175 (abstract no. A.588) Denisenko BA, Bulwachter LA, Malphanov AD; Head, Chair of Therapy, Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, Novokuznetsk, USSR
Investigation of the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is based on case detection in the Centers for Disease Control. As of December 1988, 45,807 cases of HIV have been tested in non-endemic areas. In the first stage of our investigation the inquiry-test data for all persons with clinically manifested immunodeficiency were used for detecting cases needing further clinical and immunological assays. A total of 1,078 of 45,807 reported cases with clinically manifested immunodeficiency were subjected to clinical and immunological testing. HIVs kill by damaging and ultimately destroying host's immune system, therefore cases with T-helper cell insufficiency were of our special concern. A randomized study for HIV identification was carried out in 40,703 donors and in 3,473 cases, members of a high-risk group (homosexuals, drug addicts, intravenous drug abusers and women at risk), as well as in 523 foreigners and Soviet people who might have imported HIV from abroad. Immunoenzyme analyses were assayed in 37,867 cases by Soviet test-system and by MR-700 Microplate Reader, Zeidel Medizin Technik FRG. Our epidemiologic surveillance helped to detect one seropositive patient for HIV. This patient had been on a business trip abroad for about two years. Our data suggests that epidemiologic surveillance is recommended for AIDS identification in the non-endemic areas. All individuals at risk should be tested for direct HIV control.
Keywords: AEGIS, HIV, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), Cities, Homosexuality, HIV Seropositivity, HIV Seroprevalence, HIV Antibodies, Risk Management, Risk, Risk Factors, Siberia, Human, Female, epidemiology, economics, ICA5
