TABLE 2.
Relationship between excretion of enteric viruses and the immunological and clinical category of HIV-positive infants
| CD4+ T-cell category | No. of isolates in clinical categories (positive/total samples [%])
|
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (not symptomatic) | A (mildly symptomatic) | B (moderately symptomatic) | C (severely symptomatic) | ||
| 0 (unknown) | 0 | 0 | 3/4 | 0 | 3/4 (75) |
| 1 (25%) | 0 | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 1/3 (33)b |
| 2 (15–24%) | 0 | 0/1 | 0 | 4/4 | 4/5 (80)b |
| 3 (<15%) | 0 | 2/3 | 4/7 | 12/20 | 18/30 (60)b |
| Total | 3/7 (43)a | 7/11 (64)a | 16/24 (67)a | 26/42 (62) | |
a
P = 0.3971.
b
P = 0.5501.