Identifying acute HIV infection - A major new public health challenge

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 7 I, 2004, Pages 531-

  Motloung, Tiisetso ^a   Myers, Mandy ^a   Venter, Francois ^a   Delany, Sinead ^a   Rees, Helen ^a   Stevens, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 4043077119     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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