Chagas' disease and AIDS

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Vaidian, Anil K ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; CYTOKINE; NIFURTIMOX;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NORTH AMERICA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 2942566423     PISSN: 14759292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9292-3-2     Document Type: Article

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