Survival after diagnosis of AIDS: A prospective observational study of 2625 patients

British Medical Journal

Volumn 314, Issue 7078, 1997, Pages 409-413

  Mocroft, Amanda ^a   Youle, Michael ^b   Morcinek, Julian ^b   Sabin, Caroline A ^a   Gazzard, Brian ^b   Johnson, Margaret A ^a   Phillips, Andrew N ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031035137     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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