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Table 4

Seroprevalence of HIV in patients for orthopaedic surgery.

Study Country Number of patients Population* Seroprevalence
Miniero et al. (1997) [20] Portugal 288 General 1.7
Sanchez et al. (1998) [30] Puerto Rico 100 Trauma 7
Sefeane et al. (2011) [26] South Africa 261 Trauma 23
Yeganeh et al. (2015) [31] Iran 320 Trauma 0.6
Lin et al. (2013) [12] United States of America 5 681 024 TJA 0.14
Winkelmann et al. (2016) [19] Germany 1534 TJA 0.06
Cheng et al. (2017) [23] China 11 609 TJA 0.08
Our study South Africa 1007 TJA 10.8
*

Refers to specific patient population included in study. General, entire orthopaedic department; Trauma, orthopaedic trauma; TJA, Total Joint Arthroplasty.

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