Pediatric AIDS in Romania - A country faces its epidemic and serves as a model success

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Dente, Karen ^a   Hess, Jamie ^b,c  

^a The Learning Curve   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT MORTALITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRICS; REGISTER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD; ROMANIA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD; HUMANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 39049190154     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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