A critical assessment of the prognostic value of HIV-1 RNA levels and CD4+ cell counts in HIV-infected patients

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Yerly, Sabine ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^b   Hirschel, Bernard ^a   Dubuis, Olivier ^c   Matter, Lukas ^c   Malinverni, Raffaele ^d   Furrer, Hansjakob ^d   Perrin, Luc ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RNA, VIRAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032498578     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.3.247     Document Type: Article

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