| Table 3: Blood type, secretor status and carriage of yeast in 105 HIV-positive patients and 35 control subjects | |||||
| Group | No. | No. (and %) of patients or controls | |||
| Persistent carriage | Intermittent carriage | Noncarriage | Development of thrush | ||
| HIV-positive | |||||
| Blood group | |||||
| O | 54 | 25 (46) | 18 (33) | 11 (20) | 15 (28) |
| A, B, AB | 51 | 16 (31) | 25 (49) | 10 (24) | 12 (24) |
| Secretor status | |||||
| Secretor | 80 | 32 (40) | 34 (43) | 14 (18) | 21 (26) |
| Nonsecretor | 25 | 10 (40) | 9 (36) | 6 (24) | 6 (24) |
| Control | |||||
| Blood type | |||||
| O | 15 | 1 (7) | 8 (53) | 6 (40) | 0 (0) |
| A, B, AB | 20 | 2 (10) | 7 (35) | 11 (55) | 0 (0) |
| Secretor status | |||||
| Secretor | 25 | 2 (8) | 10 (40) | 13 (52) | 0 (0) |
| Nonsecretor | 10 | 1 (10) | 4 (4) | 5 (50) | 0 (0) |
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