Clinically directed selective screening for HIV infection in hospitalized children

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1191-1197

  Bavdekar, Sandeep B ^a,b   Agarwal, Rinku ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Worli Seaside CHS ^*  (India)

Author keywords

HIV infection; Selective screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DERMATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; PAROTID ENLARGEMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRUSH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 32644445697     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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