Correlation of mucocutaneous manifestations of HIV/AIDS infection with CD4 counts and disease progression

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 14-18

  Nnoruka, Edith N ^a   Chukwuka, Judith C ^a   Anisuiba, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACNE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ICHTHYOSIS; IMMUNE STATUS; INTERVIEW; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NIGERIA; PAPULAR RASH; PREDICTION; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SCABIES; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMATITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYPHILIS; THRUSH; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; XEROSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 35948988904     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2007.03349.x     Document Type: Article

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