Objective<\/strong>: In this retrospective study, we aimed to discuss the results of anti-HIV-1\/2 ELISA and Western-Blot (WB) tests, and particularly the distribution of HIV-specific seropositive bands \u00a0performed in patients with suspected HIV infection and in blood donors and preoperative patients in the Serology\/ELISA Laboratory.<\/p>\n Methods<\/strong>: Sera samples of patients were screened for anti-HIV-1\/2 antibodies by ELISA and additionally by microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA). The confirmation of anti-HIV-positive sera samples was performed by Western-Blot method.<\/p>\n Results<\/strong>: Of 85,881 cases evaluated retrospectively during 5 years, 84,164 (98%) were blood donors and preoperative routine serology patients, and 1717 (2%) were patients with suspected HIV infection. Of 84,164 sera samples of blood donors and preoperative screening patients, 5 (0.006%) were anti-HIV-positive, and one of them was WB-positive as well. Of 1717 patients who were suspected to be HIV-infected, 72 (4.2%) sera samples demonstrated anti-HIV-1\/2 positivity. Of these 72 patients, 56 sera samples were WB- positive for HIV-1 and one for HIV-2.<\/p>\n Conclusions<\/strong>: These retrospective data from one center on anti-HIV-1\/2 and Western-Blot seroprevalence for a 5-year period are in agreement with other Turkish studies, and also concordant to those of global and local reports with respect to the distribution of transmission routes of HIV. Furthermore, a case of unusual HIV-2 infection appearing in this retrospective evaluation indicates that care should be taken to screen not only HIV-1 pandemic but also HIV-2 infections due to the effects of globalization in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract Objective: In this retrospective study, we aimed to discuss the results of anti-HIV-1\/2 ELISA and Western-Blot (WB) tests, and particularly the distribution of HIV-specific seropositive bands \u00a0performed in patients with suspected HIV infection and in blood donors and preoperative patients in the Serology\/ELISA Laboratory. Methods: Sera samples of patients were screened for anti-HIV-1\/2 antibodies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3972,2810,3974,3975,3973],"class_list":["post-16668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-antihiv","tag-elisa","tag-hiv1","tag-hiv2","tag-westernblot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}