Clinical features and outcome in disseminated mycobacterial diseases in AIDS patients in Taiwan

AIDS

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1301-1307

  Hsieh, Szu Min ^a   Hung, Chien Ching ^a   Chen, Mao Yuan ^a   Hsueh, Po Ren ^a   Chang, Shan Chwen ^a   Luh, Kwen Tay ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AIDS; Disseminated mycobacterial diseases; HIV; Mycobacterium avium complex; Taiwan; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM SMEAR; SURVIVAL; SWEAT; TAIWAN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032581455     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199811000-00011     Document Type: Article

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