Visceral leishmaniasis in an AIDS patient on successful antiretroviral therapy: Failure of parasite eradication despite increase in CD4+ T-cell count but low CD8+ T-cell count

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 236-238

  Petter, A ^a   Shetty Lee, A ^a   Kofler, G ^a   Huemer, H P ^a   Larcher, C ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INDINAVIR; LAMIVUDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CONTROL; ERADICATION THERAPY; GIEMSA STAIN; HISTIOCYTOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; PARASITE CONTROL; RELAPSE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPLENECTOMY; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEMOPHILIA B; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; RECURRENCE; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0035095790     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540151061049     Document Type: Article

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