Filarial/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection in urban southern India

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 558-560

  Talaat, Kawsar R ^a   Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran ^b   Swaminathan, Soumya ^c   Gopinath, Ramya ^d   Nutman, Thomas B ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YRG CENTRE FOR AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (India)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d Howard County General Hospital   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MIXED INFECTION; PREVALENCE; URBAN AREA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VERMES; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 53749096848     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.558     Document Type: Article

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