Assessment of HIV-1 patient recruitability in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau using African versus North American hematology and biochemistry reference intervals

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1322-1325

  Gómez Román, Victor Raúl ^a,e   Jensen, Sanne Skov ^a   Leo Hansen, Christian ^a   Jensen, Kristoffer Jarlov ^a,c   Janitzek, Christoph Mikkel ^a   Rodrigues, Candida Medina ^b   Jespersen, Sanne ^c   Katzenstein, Terese Lea ^d   Da Silva Té, David ^b   Fomsgaard, Anders ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b Hospital Nacional Simão Mendes HNSM   (Guinea-Bissau)

^c BANDIM HEALTH PROJECT   (Guinea-Bissau)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^e Jalisco   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX RATIO; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; GUINEA-BISSAU; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT SELECTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84864551368     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00170-12     Document Type: Article

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