Clinical and epidemiological study of a series of HIV-infected patients over 50 years old;Estudio de una serie clínica de pacientes infectados por el VIH mayores de 50 años

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 145-148

  Antón, Esperança ^a   Sala, Montserrat ^a   Mallolas, Josep ^b   Navarro, Gemma ^b   Cervantes, Manuel ^a   Gatell, Josep M ^b   Segura, Ferran ^a  

^a Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

HIV; Older than 50 years

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPAIN; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 16344364957     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13072164     Document Type: Article

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