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The rising prevalence of HIV-1 infection in patients attending an inner city accident and emergency department.
The recently published findings of the unlinked anonymous HIV prevalence study in England and Wales showed unchanging HIV prevalence in groups such as homo/bisexual men, and declining rates in non-injecting heterosexual men attending genitourinary medicine clinics. However, this multicentre study did detect a significant rise in seroprevalence rates in pregnant women in England and Wales and se...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.308.6944.1637a