Prevalence of cryptococcal antigenuria at initial HIV diagnosis in K wa Z ulu‐ N atal
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Prevalence of cryptococcal antigenuria at initial HIV diagnosis in KwaZulu‐Natal
OBJECTIVES The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends screening HIV-infected people for cryptococcal antigens to identify cryptococcosis, a major cause of AIDS-related deaths. As the burden of cryptococcosis is unknown in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, we assessed the cryptococcal antigenuria prevalence among newly diagnosed HIV-infected adults there. METHODS We conducted a cross-...
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عنوان ژورنال: HIV Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1464-2662,1468-1293
DOI: 10.1111/hiv.12263