Endoscopy findings in HIV-infected children from sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 238-243

  Cooke, M L ^a,b,c   Goddard, E A ^a   Brown, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GANCICLOVIR; OMEPRAZOLE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MALE; VOMITING;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 70349445088     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmn114     Document Type: Article

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