Current trends of opportunistic infections among HIV-seropositive patients from eastern India

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-53

  Chakraborty, Nilanjan ^a   Mukherjee, Anirban ^a   Santra, Santanu ^a,b   Sarkar, Rathindra Nath ^a,b   Banerjee, Dipanjan ^a,b   Guha, Shubhashish Kamal ^a,c   Chakraborty, Sekhar ^a   Bhattacharyya, Sujit Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^c CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DRUG ERUPTION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THRUSH; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIBRIO;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INDIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 40349098646     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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