Table 4.
The characteristics of syphilis infection among HIV blood-borne and sex-borne transmission populations.
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Blood-borne transmission population (n=1849), n (%) | Sex-borne transmission population (n=4666), n (%) | Chi-square (df) | P value | |||||
| Syphilis antibodies | 164 (8.87) | 1227 (26.3) | 239.499 (1) | <.001 | |||||
| Rapid plasma reagin circle card test | |||||||||
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Negative | 117 (71.34) | 754 (61.45) | 6.046 (1) | .01 | ||||
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Titer ≤1:8 | 47 (28.66) | 368 (29.99) | 0.123 (1) | .07 | ||||
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Titer ≥1:16 | 0 (0) | 105 (8.56) | 15.180 (1) | <.001 | ||||
| Symptoms | |||||||||
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None | 42 (89.36) | 346 (73.15) | 5.932 (1) | .02 | ||||
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Fever | 2 (4.26) | 35 (7.4) | 0.640 (1) | .04 | ||||
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Rash | 2 (4.26) | 40 (8.46) | 1.016 (1) | .03 | ||||
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Lymphadenopathy | 1 (2.13) | 15 (3.17) | 0.156 (1) | .07 | ||||
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Neurosyphilis | 0 (0) | 37 (7.82) | 3.958 (1) | .005 | ||||