Assessment of clinical case-definition for HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 226-229

  Amirali, W ^a,c   Moshiro, C ^b   Ramaiya, K ^a  

^a Shree Hindu Mandai Hospital   (Tanzania)

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

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; COUGHING; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TANZANIA; THRUSH; VALIDATION STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; COMORBIDITY; COUGH; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 16544376978     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v81i5.9164     Document Type: Article

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