Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Pregnancy
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چکیده
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic is clearly one of the most serious health-care crises in the professional lives of contemporary physicians. It cannot be regarded as a curiosity to be dealt with by inner-city infectious-disease experts, but rather must be considered a problem for all health-care providers and a problem in which the obstetrician-gynecologist has a special role to play.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994