Slow clinical improvement after treatment initiation in Leishmania/HIV coinfected patients

INTRODUCTION: In Brazil there is a large area of overlap of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and HIV infection, which favored a increased incidence of coinfection Leishmania/HIV. METHODS: This study evaluated 65 consecutive patients with VL and their clinical response to treatment in two health care sett...

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Main Authors: Guenael Freire de Souza, Fernando Biscione, Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco, Ana Rabello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012-04-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822012000200001&lng=en&tlng=en