[Results of 1 year's activities of the AIDS Serological Laboratory of the District Dermato-Venereological Clinic in Szczecin].

In the AIDS Serology Laboratory in Szczecin founded in March 1988 during one year to March 1989 a group of 7710 subjects were tested, among them 7263 sailors. Anti-HIV antibodies were found in 4 subjects and the result was confirmed in the Immunopathology Laboratory of the State Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw by the Western blot technique. The infected subjects had no clinical signs of AIDS. Among patients with the antibodies one was a heterosexual sailor, one homosexual (out of 23 tested ones) and one unemployed woman suspected of drug addiction and her infant aged 2 weeks. Before the organization of this laboratory the tests were carried out in the Institute of Venereology in Warsaw, and among 548 subjects HIV antibodies were found in 7 cases, including 3 prostitutes, 3 foreign students, a female sexual partner of one of these students and her child aged 2 months, who became completely seronegative after 15 months. Up to March 1989 HIV infection was diagnosed in 9 subjects in Szczecin and environs. One child is being observed.