A controlled trial of intravenous immune globulin for the prevention of serious bacterial infections in children receiving zidovudine for advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 331, Issue 18, 1994, Pages 1181-1187

  Spector, Stephen A ^a   Gelber, Richard D ^b   Mcgrath, Nuala ^b   Wara, Diane ^c   Barzilai, Asher ^d   Abrams, Elaine ^e   Bryson, Yvonne J ^f   Dankner, Wayne M ^a   Livingston, Robert A ^g   Connor, Edward M ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d One G   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PLACEBO; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG MIXTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSURIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS-RELATED COMPLEX; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 0027938843     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199411033311802     Document Type: Article

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