Association between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection and cancer in the black population of Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1704-1707

  Sitas, F ^a   Bezwoda, W R ^a   Levin, V ^a   Ruff, P ^a   Kew, M C ^a   Hale, M J ^a   Carrara, H ^a   Beral, V ^b   Fleming, G ^a   Odes, R ^a   Weaving, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control study; Human immunodeficiency virus type 1; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 8244248799     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.290     Document Type: Article

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