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Table 3 Median viral load in CSF and plasma of 70 patients with and without neurological disease

From: Factors influencing cerebrospinal fluid and plasma HIV-1 RNA detection rate in patients with and without opportunistic neurological disease during the HAART era

Patient group

Copies/ml (median)

 
 

Plasma

CSF

pa

Total population (n = 70)

   

VL (absolute values)

19,200

695

 

Log10

4.28

2.81

< 0.001

Neurological disease (n = 58)

   

VL (absolute values)

22,200

1,850

 

Log10

4.35

3.27

< 0.001

Without neurological disease (n = 12)

   

VL (absolute values)

335

1

 

Log10

2.45

<1.9

0.012

Neurotoxoplasmosis (16)

   

VL (absolute values)

27,500

3,200

 

Log10

4.44

3.45

0.013

Cryptococcal meningitis (n = 12)

   

VL (absolute values)

16.500

4.900

 

Log10

4.22

3.70

0.209

Undetermined diseases (n = 13)

   

VL (absolute values)

120,000

17,000

 

Log10

5.08

4.23

0.028

HIV-D (n = 6)

   

VL (absolute values)

2,641

910

 

Log10

2.82

2.89

0.273

  1. a nonparametric Wilcoxon test; VL, viral load; HIV-D; HIV-associated dementia.