Orofacial manifestations and seroprevalence of HIV infection in Namibian dental patients

Abstract

Six patients had orofacial lesions, including Kaposi's sarcoma, leukoplakia (bilateral on buccal mucosa), cervical lymphadenopathy, hairy leukoplakia, circum-oral herpes simplex, HIV-gingivitis and necrotising ulcerative gingivitis. This sampling and testing system is well suited for use in epidemiological surveys in developing countries.

Oral lesions as indicators of HIV infection among routine dental patients in Lagos, Nigeria

“…They represented 5% of the entire population of 700 patients who passed through the oral diagnosis clinic within the study period. This figure although is not the true prevalence, is comparable to that of Itula et al (1997) who recorded a 7% prevalence of HIV‐1 sero‐reactivity in an anonymous study of dental patients in a government clinic in Namibia.…”

Prevalence and classification of HIV‐associated oral lesions

“…Table 3 illustrates prevalence of oral lesions in studies of adults by region of the world. Prevalence of oral candidiasis varies from 56% to 81% in Asia (Anil and Challacombe, 1997; Nittayananta and Chungpanich, 1997; Ranganathan et al , 2000) to 0–94% in Africa (Tukutuku et al , 1990; Itula et al , 1997) and 5–92% in the US (Klein et al , 1991; Melnick et al , 1991; Lamster et al , 1994; Little et al , 1994), largely depending on the prevalence of AIDS diagnoses or individuals with low CD4 counts among those studied.…”

Occurrence of oral lesions in relation to clinical and immunological status among HIV‐infected adult Tanzanians

“…It is sad, but true, that most of the HIV-infected individuals are from developing countries, in particular Sub-Saharan Africa, which has over 70% of the world's HIV cases (WHO, 1996). However, only a few oral HIV studies have been published from this part of the world (Wanzala et al, 1989;Schiodt et al, 1990;Tukutuku et al, 1990;Itula et al, 1997;Arendorf et al, 1997;Hodgson, 1997;Jonsson et al, 1998). None of these studies, except that of Hodgson (1997), has related the occurrence of oral lesions with immunological stages of HIV infection.…”