Neurosyphilis in a clinical cohort of HIV-1-infected patients
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Treatment of neurosyphilis in HIV - infected patients . A systematic review .
Introduction After a large decrease in the number of cases of syphilis in the past decades, the incidence of syphilis is rising again.(1) At the end of the nineties, a new epidemic of syphilis has been documented in Western-Europe and the United States.(2) Although the number of patients seems to be decreasing again, this disease is still an important infectious disease that is sexually transmi...
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عنوان ژورنال: AIDS
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0269-9370
DOI: 10.1097/qad.0b013e32830184df