Impact of the 1994 expanded World Health Organization AIDS case definition on AIDS surveillance in university hospitals and tuberculosis centers in Cote d'Ivoire

AIDS

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1867-1872

  Greenberg, Alan E ^a,d   Coulibaly, Issa Malick ^b   Kadio, Auguste ^c   Coulibaly, Doulhourou ^b   Kassim, Sidibé ^a   Sassan Morokro, Madeleine ^a   Maurice, Chantal ^a   Whitaker, J Patrick ^a   Wiktor, Stefan Z ^a,d  

^a Projet RETRO CI   (United States)

^b STD and TB Contr Prog ^*

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TREICHVILLE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

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

Author keywords

Africa; AIDS; Case definition; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COTE D'IVOIRE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030784845     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199715000-00012     Document Type: Article

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