HTLV-1 and HIV-2 infection are associated with increased mortality in a rural West African community.
BACKGROUND:Survival of people with HIV-2 and HTLV-1 infection is better than that of HIV-1 infected people, but long-term follow-up data are rare. We compared mortality rates of HIV-1, HIV-2, and HTLV-1 infected subjects with those of retrovirus-uninfected people in a rural community in Guinea-Bissa...
Main Authors: | Carla van Tienen, Maarten Schim van der Loeff, Ingrid Peterson, Matthew Cotten, Sören Andersson, Birgitta Holmgren, Tim Vincent, Thushan de Silva, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Peter Aaby, Hilton Whittle |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3237577?pdf=render |
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