Prevalence of adenovirus respiratory tract and HIV co-infections in patients attending the University of Ilorin, teaching hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kolawole, Olatunji M ^a,b   Oladosu, Tolulope O ^b   Abdulkarim, Aishat A ^b   Okoh, Anthony I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Co infections; ELISA; HIV; Ilorin; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928815717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-870     Document Type: Article

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