Resumen

CARDOZO MONTILLA, Miguel Angel; TOVAR, Vilma  y  GUERRA, María Elena. Prevalencia de Herpes Bucal en Pacientes VIH Positivos Atendidos en el Centro de Atención a Personas con Enfermedades Infectocontagiosas Durante el Período 1999 - 2004. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2009, vol.47, n.1, pp.28-37. ISSN 0001-6365.

In this retrospective study, that was performed with purpose to determine the prevalence of oral herpes in the CAPEI during the period between January of 1999 and December of 2004, in a universe of 790 patients, one worked with a set of variables that determined their age, sex, their level of knowledge, other oral pathologies presents and concomitance of oral herpes with genital herpes, this was to obtain the respective frequency distributions and additionally for groups of age, calculating the median with the respective standard deviation. The prevalence of oral herpes represented a 3.4% in the total of oral pathologies found in that period; most of these cases were men in the age between 28 and 42 years of age. This statistics, when they are compared with the cases of herpes genital in the same population stays the same, since the last pathologies showed that herpes appear more frequently in men than women, in a ratio of 2.5:1. Other oral injuries that appear in these patients were the melanotic hyperpigmentation, Kaposi’s sarcoma and hairy leukoplakia.

Palabras clave : Prevalence, oral herpes; HIV/AIDS; herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2.