Research Article
HIV-Associated Central Nervous System Disease in Patients Admitted at the Douala General Hospital between 2004 and 2009: A Retrospective Study
Table 3
Prevalence of the different aetiologies of CNS disease and the median CD4 cell count of 300 HIV positive patients.
| Diagnosis | | Prevalence | 95% Confidence interval | Median CD4 (IQR) |
| Toxoplasma encephalitis | 97 | 32.3 | 27.1–37.7 | 68 (43–103) | Cryptococcal meningitis | 75 | 25.0 | 20.0–29.9 | 23 (10–61) | Diffused encephalitis | 57 | 19.0 | 14.5–23.5 | 99 (49–204) | Tuberculous meningitis | 54 | 18.0 | 13.6–22.4 | 16 (10–34) | AIDS dementia complex | 8 | 2.7 | 0.8–4.5 | 15 (11–20) | Bacterial meningitis | 5 | 1.7 | 0.2–3.1 | 8 (8–10) | PCNSL | 4 | 1.3 | 0–2.6 | 16 (5–116) | Total | 300 | 100 | / | 49 (17–90) |
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