Demographics.

Abbreviations: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; FIL: Filaria (W. bancrofti antigen) positive; GM: geometric mean; SD: standard deviation; WMW: Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney; ART: highly active antiretroviral therapy, N/A: Not available; %: percent. Hgb: Hemoglobin (gm/dL); WBC: White blood cell count (x 103/mm3); EOS: eosinophils; Plts: platelet count (x103/uL); ALT: alanine transaminase (SGPT, IU/L); AST: aspartate transaminase (SGOT, IU/L); VL: viral load; Ag: antigen.
^ 52 subjects were enrolled, but 1 subject did not have baseline HIV viral load value done. These statistics are on all 52 except for the viral load.
* In addition to the 28 subjects who got ART throughout, there were 2 (3.8%) subjects who got ART only part of the time during the study. Fisher’s exact test excluded those 2 subjects.
$ Measured on only n = 12 in the HIV+/FIL+ group and n = 39 in the HIV+/FIL- group.
Demographics.