An HIV-2-infected Japanese man who was a long-term nonprogressor for 36 years [5]

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1834-1835

  Utsumi, Takanobu ^a   Nagakawa, Hiroyasu ^a   Uenishi, Rie ^b   Kusakawa, Shigeru ^b   Takebe, Yutaka ^b  

^a Seirei Yokohama General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PAZUFLOXACIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; ASTHMA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2 INFECTION; JAPAN; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV LONG-TERM SURVIVORS; HIV-2; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 34547725847     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32827b1477     Document Type: Letter

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