Koenig R E, Pittaluga J, Bogart M, Castro M, Nunez F, Vilorio I, Delvillar L, Calzada M, Levy J A
JAMA. 1987 Feb 6;257(5):631-4.
Few patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome have been reported in the Dominican Republic, although they share the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, which has numerous cases. Prevalence of antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus in serum samples from Dominicans tested from 1983 through 1985 was low in comparison with that of clinically healthy Haitians working in the country. The Haitians, who gave no history of any known risk factor, had a seroprevalence to the virus of more than 10%. Only Dominican homosexuals had a high rate of seropositivity (19%); intravenous drug abusers, healthy heterosexuals, female prostitutes, and other subgroups had virtually no evidence of antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus. These results suggest that passage of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome retrovirus between populations in two countries on the same island did not occur except by known risk practices. They emphasize that the extent of viral transmission in Haiti is greater than that observed in the Dominican Republic.
尽管多米尼加共和国与海地共享伊斯帕尼奥拉岛，而海地有大量后天免疫机能丧失综合症（艾滋病）病例，但多米尼加报告的艾滋病患者却很少。1983年至1985年对多米尼加人血清样本进行检测，结果显示，与在该国工作的临床健康海地人相比，多米尼加人血清中人类免疫缺陷病毒抗体的流行率较低。这些海地人没有任何已知风险因素的病史，其病毒血清阳性率超过10%。只有多米尼加同性恋者的血清阳性率较高（19%）；静脉注射吸毒者、健康异性恋者、女性妓女和其他亚组人群几乎没有人类免疫缺陷病毒抗体的迹象。这些结果表明，除了通过已知的风险行为外，后天免疫机能丧失综合症逆转录病毒并未在同一岛屿上两个国家的人群之间传播。这些结果强调，海地的病毒传播程度高于多米尼加共和国。
