Risk factors for toxoplasmic encephalitis in HIV-infected patients: A case-control study in Brazil

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 587-593

  Nascimento, L V ^a   Stollar, F ^a   Tavares, L B ^a   Cavasini, C E ^a   Maia, I L ^a   Cordeiro, J A ^a   Ferreira, M U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; BRAZIL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; ILEX COOKII; PROTOZOA; RNA VIRUSES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0034802794     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034980120073931     Document Type: Article

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