Postmortem findings in HIV/AIDS patients in a tertiary care hospital in rural South Africa

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-84

  Garcia Jardon, Mirta ^a   Bhat, Vivek G ^a   Blanco Blanco, E ^b   Stepian, Andrez ^a  

^a Department of Anatomical Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENINGITIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; RURAL AREA; SEPTICEMIA; SOUTH AFRICA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

FUNGI; PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 77949778012     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.090465     Document Type: Article

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