Profound immunosuppression across the spectrum of opportunistic disease among hospitalized HIV-infected adults in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

AIDS

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1357-1364

  Grant, Alison D ^a,b   Djomand, Gaston ^a   Smets, Pierre ^a   Kadio, Auguste ^a   Coulibaly, Makan ^a   Kakou, Aka ^a   Maurice, Chantal ^a   Whitaker, J Patrick ^a,c   Sylla Koko, Fatoumata ^a   Bonard, Dominique ^a   Wiktor, Stefan Z ^a,c   Hayes, Richard J ^b   De Cock, Kevin M ^b   Greenberg, Alan E ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TREICHVILLE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Africa; AIDS related opportunistic infections; CD4 lymphocyte count; HIV 1; HIV 2

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; COTE D'IVOIRE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RADIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV WASTING SYNDROME; HIV-1; HIV-2; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 9844249666     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199711000-00010     Document Type: Article

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