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SANDOVAL DE MORA, Marisol; DOMMAR DE NUCCIO, Lil; MOSQUEDA, Rosa  e  VALENZUELA, Franklin. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in medical services. Rev. Soc. Ven. Microbiol. [online]. 2008, vol.28, n.2, pp.116-120. ISSN 1315-2556.

We carried out a descriptive prospective study in a series of cases of HIV positive patients to determine the morbid-mortality rates due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at the medical services of the Hospital “Ruiz y Paez” in Ciudad Bolivar, Bolivar State, Venezuela, during the year 2005. We studied 53 adult patients. Data were collected through a registration form. We registered the entrance of an average of 4.4 cases of HIV infections per month; the productive age group (22-31 years) and the male sex were the most frequent. The use of non parenteral drugs predominated as indirect risk factor associated to the acquisition of the HIV infection because it conditions conducts that culminate in unsafe sexual practices in 26.4% (n=14) cases. Fever and weight loss appeared as the most frequent symptoms; the digestive tube and the central nervous system appeared as the most affected organs, Urinary infections, oropharingeal candidiasis and intestinal parasitosis were the most frequent associated infections. The proportion of cases studied for the series was 0.087 and the annual mortality rate was 13.2% (n=7 deaths).

Palavras-chave : HIV; opportunist infections; immunodeficiency; clinic.