Epidemiology of Cryptococcal antigenemia among HIV infected patients in southwestern Nigeria
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High Prevalence of Cryptococcal Antigenemia among HIV-infected Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND Cryptococcal disease is estimated to be responsible for significant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa; however, only scarce epidemiology data exists. We sought to evaluate the prevalence of and risk factors for cryptococcal antigenemia in Ethiopia. METHODS Consecutive adult HIV-infected patients from two public HIV clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were enrolled into the study. A CD4 ...
متن کاملComment on “Cryptococcal antigenemia among severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected adults in Uganda (Oyella et al. 2012)”
Received 17 May 2012; Accepted 6 July 2012; Published 2 August 2012 Copyright: – 2012 Joob B and Wiwanitkit V; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the origi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Biosecurity
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2652-0036
DOI: 10.31646/gbio.28