Residual risk for post-transfusional HIV-2 infection in France

Boeri, N.; Bélec, Laurent; Gilquin, Jacques; Chevalier, Xavier

doi:10.1097/00002030-199211000-00036

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“…Up to January 1990, 847 cases of HIV-2 infection had been reported in Europe (2). Although the majority were African immigrants living in Western Europe, HIV-2 infection has been reported amongst European citizens from numerous groups at risk of infection, including homosexuals in Portugal, Belgium, England, and France (2,15,16); drug addicts in Italy and Portugal (2); blood transfusion recipients in France and Portugal (2,17,18); and heterosexual partners of seropositive subjects in England, Portugal, Switzerland, and Holland (2,19,20). France and Portugal are the two European countries with the largest number of cases (2).…”

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“…Likewise, no HIV-2-infected donations were found in 22,694 samples in the USA in 1987 (36) or in later studies that have included more than 26 million blood donations (21,37,38). However, one French donor who had escaped detection by the oldest serological tests, designed to recognize antibodies to HIV-1, has recently been identified as being HIV-2 positive (18). Moreover, the first two cases of HIV-2 infection have recently been detected in blood donors in the USA (39).…”

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Epidemiology of HIV-2 infection in Spain

Soriano

Gutiérrez

Caballero

et al. 1996

Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis.

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Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) infection is endemic in West Africa, where it is responsible for many cases of AIDS. HIV-2-infected subjects have been described in other countries, mainly African immigrants, although infection in native individuals has been reported as well. The first cases of HIV-2 infection in Spain were identified in 1988. Through December 1995, 56 HIV-2 infected individuals have been diagnosed, primarily in large urban areas (23 cases in Madrid and 18 in Barcelona). All are African immigrants, except for 12 natives (21.4%), six of whom acquired the infection in endemic areas; the remaining six (2 women with numerous sexual partners and 4 homo/bisexual men) acquired the infection in Spain. Heterosexual transmission was probable in all but seven cases: five homo/bisexual males, a subject who likely acquired infection through parenteral exposure, and a child born to an HIV-2-infected mother. Nine patients (all Spanish born) have developed AIDS (16%), six of whom have died. In conclusion, HIV-2 infection is present in Spain at a low rate, and there is little evidence supporting an emerging ongoing transmission outside the population of African immigrants.

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