Clinical and laboratory profile of HIV-positive patients at the moment of diagnosis in Bahia, Brazil

In Brazil, current trends of the AIDS epidemic include an increase in transmission through heterosexual contact, predominantly from men to women, with more cases of AIDS in women and more children contaminated by vertical transmission. There is also a high proportion of cases in poor people or peopl...

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Main Authors: Márcia Sampaio Sá, Julio Sampaio, Thiago Haguihara, Fernando Oak Ventin, Carlos Brites
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000400004&lng=en&tlng=en