Estudio epidemiológico, clínico e inmunológico de pacientes infectados con HIV y HTLV-1

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% (23/282); 8.5% (12/141) in men and 7.8% (11/141) in women [or=0.91(0.36