Real-time PCR in HIV/Trypanosoma cruzi coinfection with and without Chagas disease reactivation: Association with HIV viral load and CD4+ level

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  de Freitas, Vera Lúcia Teixeira ^a   da Silva, Sheila Cristina Vicente ^a   Sartori, Ana Marli ^a   Bezerra, Rita Cristina ^a   Westphalen, Elizabeth Visone Nunes ^b   Molina, Tatiane Decaris ^a   Teixeira, Antonio R L ^c   Ibrahim, Karim Yaqub ^a   Shikanai Yasuda, Maria Aparecida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPETITIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRUS LOAD; XENODIAGNOSIS; ADOLESCENT; EVALUATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CHAGAS DISEASE; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052399477     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001277     Document Type: Article

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