Table 3.
Characteristics of human serum samples based on ultrasound image patterns and HIV-1 infection status
| Subject groupa | No. of subjects |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | With image patternb: |
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| IPA |
IPC |
IPD/E |
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| HIV-1 negative | HIV-1 positive | HIV-1 negative | HIV-1 positive | HIV-1 negative | HIV-1 positive | ||
| Uninfected | 13 | ||||||
| INT | 23 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| HS | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | |||
a
INT, intestinal schistosomiasis; HS, hepatosplenic schistosomiasis.
b
IPA, normal liver texture; IPC, liver scan with “ring echoes” that appeared as pipe stems; IPD/E, liver scan with “ruff” around the main portal vein and in the liver parenchyma with patches of fibrosis.