KI and WU polyomaviruses and CD4+ cell counts in HIV-1-infected patients, Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1482-1485

  Babakir Mina, Muhammed ^a   Ciccozzi, Massimo ^b   Farchi, Francesca ^b   Bergallo, Massimiliano ^c   Cavallo, Rossana ^c   Adorno, Gaspare ^a   Perno, Carlo Federico ^a   Ciotti, Marco ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAZANAVIR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; INTEGRASE INHIBITOR; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; NONNUCLEOSIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITOR; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RITONAVIR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; STAVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KI VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYOMA VIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD; WU VIRUS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL, TUMOR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; ITALY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 77956037283     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100211     Document Type: Article

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