RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The group-specific protein marker: a possible indicator of syphilis, not human immunodeficiency virus infection
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1013
OP 1015
VO 138
IS 11
A1 D. R. Pollard
A1 P. Gill
A1 A. Day
YR 1988
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/138/11/1013.abstract
AB We wished to compare the frequency of group-specific (Gc) phenotypes in the general population with that in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to find out whether the Gc protein is a marker for susceptibility to HIV infection. We determined the phenotype frequency in 1083 randomly selected serum samples obtained from the Canadian Influenza Survey Studies and compared it with that in 263 serum samples obtained from the Federal Centre for AIDS and the Syphilis Serology Proficiency Testing Laboratory. No association between Gc phenotype and HIV status was found. However, there was a strong association between the Gc protein 1f/1f phenotype and syphilis.