Correlation between CD4 counts of HIV patients and enteric protozoan in different seasons - An experience of a tertiary care hospital in Varanasi (India)

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tuli, Lekha ^a   Gulati, Anil K ^a   Sundar, Shyam ^a   Mohapatra, Tribhuban M ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; EFAVIRENZ; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIDUVUDINE; CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RAINY SEASON; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 52249093768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-8-36     Document Type: Article

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