Rate of decline of absolute number and percentage of CD4 T lymphocytes among HIV-1-infected adults in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

AIDS

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 433-438

  Urassa, Willy ^a   Bakari, Mohamed ^a   Sandström, Eric ^b   Swai, Andrew ^a   Pallangyo, Kisali ^a   Mbena, Ephraim ^a   Mhalu, Fred ^a   Biberfeld, Gunnel ^c,d  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Africa; CD4 T lymphocyte decline; HIV 1; Natural history

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TANZANIA;

ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TANZANIA;

EID: 1642376988     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200402200-00009     Document Type: Article

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