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Table 2 Demographic and risk characteristics of the 509 women by HIV/HSV serostatus

From: Genital herpes evaluation by quantitative TaqMan PCR: correlating single detection and quantity of HSV-2 DNA in cervicovaginal lavage fluids with cross-sectional and longitudinal clinical data

Definition

HIV+/HSV+

N = 379 (74%)

HIV+/HSV-

N = 22 (4%)

HIV-/HSV+

N= 68 (13%)

HIV-/HSV-

N = 40 (8%)

Median age at baseline, years (IQR)

38 (33-42)

36 (28-40)

34 (28-40)

26(22-30)

Race n (%)

    

   African American

225 (59%)

6 (27%)

45 (66%)

13 (33%)

   Hispanic

79 (21%)

3 (14%)

15 (22%)

7 (18%)

   White

55 (15%)

11 (50%)

6 (9%)

18 (45%)

   Other

20 (5%)

2 (9%)

2 (3%)

2 (5%)

Risk exposure

    

   Intravenous drug use

135 (36%)

6 (27%)

16 (24%)

8 (20%)

   Heterosexual risk

149 (39%)

12 (55%)

11 (16%)

10 (25%)

   Transfusion risk

10 (3%)

0 (0%)

1 (1%)

1 (3%)

   No identified risk

85(22%)

4 (18%)

40 (59%)

21 (53%)

Lifetime # of sex partners

    

   0-1

16 (4%)

1 (5%)

3 (4%)

1 (3%)

   2-4

51 (13%)

5 (23%)

13 (19%)

6 (15%)

   5-9

81 (21%)

8 (36%)

19 (28%)

10 (25%)

   10-50

122 (32%)

6 (27%)

19 (28%)

21 (53%)

   > 50

108 (28%)

2 (9%)

14 (21%)

2 (5%)

   missing

1 (0.3%)

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