AIDS incubation in 1891 HIV seroconverters from different exposure groups

AIDS

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1990, Pages 1059-1066

  Biggar, Robert J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; AIDS; Epidemiology; Exposure groups; HIV; Incubation; Kaposi's sarcoma; Seroconversion

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCUBATION TIME; INFANT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOPHILIA A; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NORTH AMERICA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0025677386     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199011000-00002     Document Type: Article

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