Crohn's disease onset in an HIV/hepatitis C virus co-infected woman taking pegylated interferon α-2b plus ribavirin [3]

AIDS

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1989-1990

  Bongiovanni, Marco ^a   Ranieri, Roberto ^a   Ferrero, Stefano ^a   Casanova, Francesca ^b   Monforte, Antonella D'Arminio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MELENA; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 33748914275     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000247127.19882.f6     Document Type: Letter

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