A case of severe CMV-colitis in an HIV positive patient despite moderate immunodeficiency

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 904-906

  Wolf, Timo ^a   Bickel, Markus ^a   Faust, Dominik ^a   Fellbaum, Christian ^a   Brodt, Hans Reinhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; CIDOFOVIR; GANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; MALE;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0348229320     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540310016655     Document Type: Article

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