Timing of blood sampling for CD4 t-cell counting influences haart decisions

Ethiopian Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-197

  Bekele, Yonas ^a   Mengistu, Yohannes ^a,b   De Wit, Tobias Rinke ^c   Wolday, Dawit ^d  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Medical Biotech Laboratory   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RNA, VIRAL; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 80053631382     PISSN: 00141755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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