Redefining AIDS: Towards a modification of the current AIDS case definition

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 64-74

  Albrecht, Helmut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Department of Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANUS CANCER; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; WART VIRUS;

EID: 0031031084     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.1.64     Document Type: Review

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