Late entry to HIV care among latinos compared with non-latinos in a southeastern US cohort

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 480-487

  Dennis, Ann M ^a   Napravnik, Sonia ^a,b   Seña, Arlene C ^a   Eron, Joseph J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGING; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051969889     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir434     Document Type: Article

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