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Item Chronic neutrophilic leukaemia: a case report.(1988-06-01) Sundar, S; Singh, V P; Dube, R K; Dube, B; Agrawal, N RItem False positive HIV-1 DNA PCR in infancy.(2008-03-28) Agarwal, D; Agrawal, N RItem Study on clinico-epidemiological profile of HIV patients in eastern India.(2006-11-26) Chakravarty, J; Mehta, H; Parekh, A; Attili, S V S; Agrawal, N R; Singh, S P; Sundar, SIn this study, 438 HIV positive patients attending the HIV clinic of Sir Sundar Lal Hospital, IMS, BHU were enrolled. Of these 354 were males (mean CD4 count 179 +/- 9.3 cells/microl) and 84 were females (mean CD4 count 323 +/- 28.26 cells/microl). The mean age of the study subjects at the time of diagnosis was 32.6 years. Heterosexual contact was the commonest mode of transmission in 352 (80.4%) patients followed by blood transfusion in 2.5%.History suggestive of a risk factor for HIV transmission could not be elicited in 62 (14.1%) patients. Among male patients, 71.5% were migrant workers. Fever (70.6%), weight loss (53.3%), chronic diarrhea (43.9%) and cough (40.3%) were the common presenting symptoms. Out of the 438 patients, 66.4% had opportunistic infections at the time of reporting to the hospital. The most common opportunistic infection was tuberculosis (38.8%) followed by oropharyngeal candidiasis (20.3%) and diarrhea (12.7%). CD4 counts of the patients were significantly inversely correlated with the number of symptoms and the number of opportunistic infections (correlation coefficient were -.289 and -.236 respectively).