Viral coinfections among African children infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 922-924

  Chakraborty, Rana ^a,d,e   Rees, Gareth ^b   Bourboulia, Dimitra ^c   Cross, Alexandra M ^a   Dixon, Jedediah R ^a   D'Agostino, Angelo ^d   Musoke, Rachel ^d   Boshoff, Chris ^c   Rowland Jones, Sarah L ^a   Klenerman, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Nyumbani Children's Home   (Kenya)

^e ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HERPES; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

AFRICA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GB VIRUS C; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; HUMANS;

EID: 0037385647     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368207     Document Type: Article

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