HIV testing in general medical admissions – a missed opportunity
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Delayed HIV testing in internal medicine clinics - a missed opportunity.
As HIV infection may be non-symptomatic for many years, many HIV-infected individuals are not aware of their infection. At a certain point in time non-specific symptoms may occur for which patients are likely be referred to internal medicine outpatient clinics. In the absence of systematic screening for HIV and in particular in patients who do not have classical risk factors for HIV, the diagno...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-3-s9