1999 USPHS/IDSA guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus

Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-74

  Kaplan, Jonathan E ^a,b   Masur, Henry ^c   Holmes, King K ^d  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b National Center for HIV STD and TB Prevention   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CIDOFOVIR; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; ISONIAZID; ITRACONAZOLE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENTAMIDINE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; RIMANTADINE; SULFADIAZINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS C; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MYCOSIS; OBSTETRIC CARE; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0034020560     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-0997(2000)8:1<3::AID-IDOG2>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Review

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