Unexplained Opportunistic Infections and CD4+ T-Lymphocytopenia without HIV Infection – An Investigation of Cases in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 373-379

  Smith, Dawn K ^a   Neal, Joyce J ^b   Holmberg, Scott D ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA; HERPES ZOSTER; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA A; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INTERVIEWS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027472301     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199302113280601     Document Type: Article

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