Virologic and immunologic characterization of long-term survivors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 201-208

  Cao, Yunzhen ^a   Qin, Limo ^a   Zhang, Linqi ^a   Safrit, Jeffrey ^a   ho, David D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DIDANOSINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 160; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMAN; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028847578     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199501263320401     Document Type: Article

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