A simple algorithm for the diagnosis of AIDS-associated genitourinary tuberculosis [5]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1807-1808

  Pérez, Saberio ^a   Andrade, Martin ^a   Bergel, Patrick ^a   Bracho, Yoshira ^b   De Waard, Jacobus H ^b  

^a Hospital Vargas de Caracas   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALBUMINURIA; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYURIA; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; VENEZUELA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS, UROGENITAL;

EID: 33744783926     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504433     Document Type: Letter

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