Fig 1.
Flow chart showing the availability of data for analysis.
Table 1.
Comparison of the basic characteristics of HIV positive ART-treated, HIV positive ART-naïve and HIV negative individuals.
Fig 2.
Confocal laser endomicroscopy images: A- normal antrum, B- normal antrum showing confinement of fluorescein within the mucosa. C to E shows CLE images of gastric intestinal metaplasia and F to H: comparative CLE images of the duodenum. Visible in both sets are the presence of villus-like structures, goblet cells (solid arrows), intraepithelial lymphocytes (box arrows), plumes (dotted arrows) and a visible brush borders.
Table 2.
Gastric pathology in HIV positive ART-treated, HIV positive ART- naïve and HIV negative individuals.
Fig 3.
Number of antral sites in HIV positive individuals colonized by H. pylori seen in relation to the following variables: A use of ART; B gastric intestinal metaplasia (detected on histology); C Low CD4 count (less than 500 cells/ul); D Hypochlorhydria (x-axes show the number of sites with H. pylori infection and y-axes are the percentages).
Table 3.
The association between fluorescein leakage and gastric mucosal lesions (including both HIV positive and negative controls).