Estudio epidemiológico, clinico e inmunológico de pacientes coinfectados con HIV y HTLV-1. / [Clinical, epidemiological and immunological study of patients coinfected with HIV and HTLV-1]

ABSTRACT

We studied the prevalence of antibodies against HTLV-1 among every HIV-infected outpatients assisted in our hospital between January 1st 2000 and June 30th 2003. We reviewed the epidemiological data, clinical findings, viral load and CD4 cells-count, comparing coinfected with non HTLV-1 coinfected. We found a prevalence of HTLV-1 infection of 8.1