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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, Nov 1997, 787-788, Vol 4, No. 6
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

High prevalence of antibodies to Mycoplasma penetrans in human immunodeficiency virus-seronegative and -seropositive populations in Brazzaville, Congo

P Tuppin, O Delamare, V Launay, M Gueguen, MC Samba, L Pambou, L Montagnier and O Grau
Unites d'Epidemiologie des Virus Oncogenes, Departement SIDA et Retrovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

In industrialized countries, the prevalence of antibodies to Mycoplasma penetrans is higher among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- seropositive homosexuals than other HIV-seropositive and HIV- seronegative groups. In an African heterosexual population, we found a higher prevalence of M. penetrans antibodies in HIV-seronegative blood donors (15.5%) than in France (0.9%) or the United States (0.3%) and a prevalence of 13.4% in HIV-seropositive individuals. HIV-seropositive individuals with less than 5% CD4 cells had a higher prevalence of M. penetrans antibodies than individuals with 5% or more CD4 cells (25.0 versus 8.5%).