results two hundred eighty nine hiv infected patients were interviewed by the trainers, out of which 90.3% and 9.7% were male and female, respectively. most participants (47.8%) were in 30 - 39 years old age group. sixty two point two percent of participants experienced external stigma and 98.62% subjects reported internal stigma. significant associations between the cities and some items inclu...

the purpose of this study was to assess the possible correlation between brucella and hiv infections. iran is a country where hiv infection is expanding and brucellosis is prevalent. in the present study, 184 hiv infected patients were assigned and for all of them hiv infection was confirmed by western blot test. in order to identify the prevalence rate of brucella infection and systemic brucel...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been associated with cardiac disease, including anatomical or functional disturbance to the heart. Cardiomyopathy (CMP) is one of these disturbances that have been associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. In this review article, several aspects of potential relationships between HIV infection and cardiomyopathy development have been...

Background: In recent years, there has been an increase in the amount and variety of data generated in the field of healthcare, (e.g., data related to the prevalence of contagious diseases in the society). Various patterns of individuals’ relationships in the society make the analysis of the network a complex, highly important process in detecting and preventing the incidence of diseases....

Background: Mucocutaneous manifestations may occur inevery stage of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.Some of them may be the first presentations. In this study, weevaluated the prevalence of dermatologic manifestations as thefirst presentations of HIV/AIDS in 25 Iranian patients.Method: In a cross sectional study, we evaluated 25 new casesof HIV infection whose HIV infections were d...

patients and methods 720 cases including 120 patients undergoing hemodialysis, and 600 patients with hiv infection were studied. all cases with positive results for hbsag were evaluated for the presence of anti-hdv antibodies. samples with anti-hdv positive results were subjected to nested pcr for hdv-rna confirmation, and sequenced for hdv genotype determination. results hbsag was found in 9 (...

Infection of individual cells with more than one HIV particle is an important feature of HIV replication, which may contribute to HIV pathogenesis via the occurrence of recombination, viral complementation and other outcomes that influence HIV replication and evolutionary dynamics. A previous mathematical model of co-infection has shown that the number of cells infected with i viruses correlate...

Background and Objectives: Human T-cell lymphotropic viruses (HTLV) type 1 and 2 are retroviruses that share the same routes of transmission as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). As a consequence of epidemiologic similarities, HIV and HTLV-1/2 co-infection is frequent. Due to the limited data, this study assessed the seroprevalence of HTLV-1/2 infections in HIV infected patients in Tehran, Ira...