Opportunistic infections in pediatric HIV infection: A study of 74 autopsy cases from Latin America: The Latin American AIDS pathology study group

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 569-576

  Drut, Ricardo ^a   Anderson, Virginia ^b   Greco, M Alba ^c   Gutiérrez, Carmen ^d   León Bojorge, Beatriz De ^e   Menezes, Dora ^f   Peruga, Armando ^g   Quijano, Graciela ^a   Ridaura, Cecilia ^e   Siminovich, Mónica ^h   Mayoral, Pedro Valencia ⁱ   Weissenbacher, Mercedes ^g  

^a Hospital de Ninos Sor Maria Ludovica   (Argentina)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell   (Uruguay)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^f FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^g PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

ⁱ HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

AIDS; opportunistic infections

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CANDIDA; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MALE;

EID: 0030915609     PISSN: 15513815     EISSN: 15513823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15513819709168733     Document Type: Article

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