Table 3.
Endocervical HIV-1 viral loads by country during acute and early infection
| Uganda | Zimbabwe | Overall | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N of Women | N of Specimens | Estimated Mean and SE1 (Log10) | N of Women | N of Specimens | Estimated Meanand SE1 (Log10) | N of Women | N of Specimens | Estimated Meanand SE1 (Log10) | |
| Acute Infection | 48 | 10 | 2.83 (0.46) | 111 | 11 | 3.09 (0.43) | 159 | 21 | 3.01 (0.31) |
| 1 – 2 months | 37 | 2.23 (0.15) | 92 | 2.32 (0.09) | 129 | 2.30 (0.08) | |||
| >2 – 4 months | 83 | 1.88 (0.10) | 110 | 2.06 (0.09) | 193 | 2.00 (0.07) | |||
| >4 – 6 months | 47 | 1.85 (0.09) | 81 | 1.95 (0.08) | 128 | 1.92 (0.06) | |||
| P-value1 | |||||||||
| Acute vs. 1 - 2 months | 0.21 | 0.08 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Acute vs. >2 - 4 months | 0.04 | 0.02 | <.01 | ||||||
| Acute vs. >4 - 6 months | 0.03 | 0.01 | <.01 | ||||||
| 1 – 2 vs. >2 - 4 months | 0.02 | 0.02 | <.01 | ||||||
| >2 – 4 vs. >4 - 6 months | 0.68 | 0.28 | 0.24 | ||||||
| 1 - 2 vs. >4 – 6 months | 0.01 | <.01 | <.01 | ||||||
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Estimated mean and standard error obtained from marginal models using the GEE approach