Correlation of CD4 count, CD4% and HIV viral load with clinical manifestations of HIV in infected Indian children

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-119

  Shah, Ira ^a,b  

^a B J WADIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

CHILD HEALTH; CORRELATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MEDICINE; VIRAL DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER BIAS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INDIAN; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; OTITIS MEDIA; PAROTITIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; SCABIES; SKIN INFLAMMATION; STAGING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THRUSH; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS LOAD; AGE; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART DISEASES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED; MALE; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 33746223164     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X107458     Document Type: Article

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