CD4 cell count among HIV-infected patients with an AIDS-defining disease: Higher count in patients coinfected than in those not coinfected with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 279-280

  Scapellato, Pablo Gustavo ^a   Bottaro, Edgardo ^a   Rodriguez Brieschke, María Teresa ^a   Scapellato, José Luis ^a   Dato, Adriana ^a   Intile, Alfredo Dante ^a   Davaro, Raul ^a   Vidal, Gabrielas Inés ^a  

^a Hospital Santojanni Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; T CELL LEUKEMIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0038078576     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200306010-00028     Document Type: Letter

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