Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of adult and adolescent patients newly diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus at a Jamaican clinic for sexually transmitted infections

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 360-363

  Vickers, I E ^a   Alveranga, H ^b   Smikle, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAMAICA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PALLOR; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRUSH; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 33645651336     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0043-31442005000600003     Document Type: Article

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