Letter to the Editor: Potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Host Cells in Human Semen

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 1-2

  Wolff, Hans ^a   Anderson, Deborah J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HIV; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MONOCYTES; SEMEN;

EID: 85008530191     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.1988.4.1     Document Type: Letter

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