A study of HIV seropositivity with various clinical manifestation of herpes zoster among patients from Karnataka, India

Herpes zoster in outpatient departments of healthcare centers in India: a review of literature

“…A total of 14 articles were included from this initial search. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] A search for additional literature in Google Scholar, was carried out due to limited number of articles retrieved in the initial search. Post Google scholar search, 13 additional articles were further added.…”

“…18,19,21,33 Eight studies reported exclusively on HZO cases. 16,17,23,32,35,37,38,41 Of the 27 publications, seven 21,22,24,27,28,31,40 provided proportions of HZ cases among all patients who attended outpatient visits in the considered departments, ranging between 0.28 and 2.36% (Figure 1). For example in the study with the largest sample size conducted in a rural hospital in Gujarat, 938 HZ cases were reported between June 2008 and December 2016 among all dermatology outpatients, yielding a proportion of 0.38%.…”

“…As seen in Supplementary Table 1, eleven studies that included patients of all ages reported their mean age ranging between 29.6 and 57.3 years. 15,16,[22][23][24]28,31,35,37,38,41 Roughly half of the studies reported proportions of patients by age groups. Proportions of patients with HZ in >50 and >60 years ranged from 15.0% 36 to 81.3% 35 and from 5.0% 36 to 62.5%, 35 respectively.…”

“…Male:female ratio ranged between 1.1:1 and 1.9:1 in 15 studies (Figure 1). 14,16,19,20,22,24,[28][29][30][31]33,35,37,38,41 Six studies found the ratios to be in the order of 2:1, 15,17,23,26,36,40 Five studies, however, reported more women patients with HZ than men, in the range of 0.6:1 to 0.9:1. 18,21,32,34,39…”

“…HIV status of the enrolled population was clearly stated in 23 studies. 14,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][26][27][28]31,32,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] For other studies, HIV status was either not assessed or mentioned. The reported frequency of HIV seropositivity among the studied patients varied between 0% 22,27,38 and 44.4%.…”