SEROPREVALENCY EVOLUTION OF HIV-2 AT THE NATIONAL-HOSPITAL-OF-NIAMEY (NIGER)

Authors
OUSSEINI H
Citation
H. Ousseini, SEROPREVALENCY EVOLUTION OF HIV-2 AT THE NATIONAL-HOSPITAL-OF-NIAMEY (NIGER), Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales, 89(3), 1996, pp. 209-211
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales → ACNP
ISSN journal
00379085
Volume
89
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
209 - 211
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9085(1996)89:3<209:SEOHAT>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
About the 25,368 serological tests done among the different groups of the population at the Biological laboratory of the National Hospital o f Niamey from March 1987 to May 1990, the author studied the seropreva lency evolution of the infection Him. A regular fall for the HIV2 appe ared in this period. The author fries to explain this fall of the HIV2 in a country newly infected by the HIV by the lower infectiosity of t he HIV2 and/or a failure to adjust of this virus in Niger.