Liver toxicity resulting from syphilis and jarish-herxheimer reaction in cases of coinfection with HIV and hepatitis C virus [5]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1211-1212

  Cooper, Curtis ^a   MacPherson, Paul ^a   Angel, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BILIRUBIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; INDINAVIR; LAMIVUDINE; LIVER ENZYME; PENICILLIN V; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERXHEIMER REACTION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SECONDARY SYPHILIS; SPLENOMEGALY; SUPERINFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYPHILIS;

EID: 16844368027     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428848     Document Type: Letter

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