Seroprevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus in major trauma patients in Johannesburg [5]

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 792-793

  Bowley, Douglas M ^a   Cherry, Raymond ^a   Snyman, Tracy ^a   Vellema, Jeanine ^a   Rein, Paddy ^a   Moeng, Steve ^a   Boffard, Kenneth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJURY; LETTER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPHYLAXIS; RESUSCITATION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036772354     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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