The effect of the 1993 European revision of the AIDS cease definition in Italy: Implications for modelling the HIV epidemic

AIDS

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-99

  Pezzotti, Patrizio ^a   Napoli, Pier Angela ^a   Rezza, Giovanni ^a   Lazzeri, Vera ^b   Acciai, Serenella ^c   Curia, Rubens ^d   Crosera, Carla ^b   Grazia De Rosa, Maria ^e  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Public Health Department   (Italy)

^c CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^d Calabria Regional Health Council   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AIDS surveillance; Cervical cancer; Europe; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Recurrent pneumonia

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; ITALY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SURVIVAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031037114     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199701000-00014     Document Type: Article

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