Presumptive diagnosis of severe HIV infection to determine the need for antiretroviral therapy in children less than 18 months of age

OBJECTIVE: To develop a new algorithm for the presumptive diagnosis of severe disease associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children less than 18 months of age for the purpose of identifying children who require antiretroviral therapy (ART). METHODS: A conditional probabili...

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Published in:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Main Authors:	Nicolas Grundmann, Peter Iliff, Jeff Stringer, Catherine Wilfert
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The World Health Organization 2011-07-01
Online Access:	http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000700011&lng=en&tlng=en