Effects of Socio-Economic and Health Variables on Survival Time of HIV/AIDS Patients in Manipuir [PDF]
Background: The survival time of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is associated with many socio-economic, education, employment and socio-cultural factors.
Koko Wangjam, Naorem Sharat Singh
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Home-based versus clinic-based care for patients starting antiretroviral therapy with low CD4⁺ cell counts: findings from a cluster-randomized trial. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: African health services have shortages of clinical staff. We showed previously, in a cluster-randomized trial, that a home-based strategy using trained lay-workers is as effective as a clinic-based strategy. It is not known whether home-based
Amuron +14 more
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Seven year review of retention in HIV care and treatment in federal medical centre Ido-Ekiti
INTRODUCTION: poor retention of patients in care is a major driver of poor performance and increased morbidity and mortality in HIV/AIDS programme despite the expansion and advancement Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART).
Oluwole Adeyemi Babatunde +6 more
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Cryptococcus Infection and Lymphocytopenia: An Ill Defined Entity [PDF]
Cryptococcus neoformans infections are rare. Meningitis by Cryptococcus is well known as an opportunistic infection. It is most commonly seen in immuno-suppressed patients, especially in retrovirus infections and chemotherapy patients. Herein we describe
Venkat Janardhan Rama Reddy +3 more
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On the markers for schizophrenia
Summary. The study of various markers indicating an imbalance in both the neurotransmitter and immune systems observed in patients with schizophrenia is currently of great scientific and practical interest.
A. N. Erichev +4 more
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Tissue memory CD4+ T cells expressing IL-7 receptor-alpha (CD127) preferentially support latent HIV-1 infection. [PDF]
The primary reservoir for HIV is within memory CD4+ T cells residing within tissues, yet the features that make some of these cells more susceptible than others to infection by HIV is not well understood.
Cavrois, Marielle +16 more
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Loss of correlation between HIV viral load and CD4+ T-cell counts in HIV/HTLV-1 co-infection in treatment naive Mozambican patients [PDF]
Seven hundred and four HIV-1/2-positive, antiretroviral therapy (ART) naïve patients were screened for HTLV-1 infection. Antibodies to HTLV-1 were found in 32/704 (4.5%) of the patients.
Augusto, O +7 more
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Infectious mononucleosis is a widespread disease caused by certain members of Herpesviridae family. Acute infectious mononucleosis develops predominantly in children and is accompanied by an increase of the number of circulating naive CD4+ and naive CD8+
E. N. Filatova +4 more
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Response to highly active antiretroviral therapy among severely immuno-compromised HIV-infected patients in Cambodia. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: HAART efficacy was evaluated in a real-life setting in Phnom Penh (Médecins Sans Frontières programme) among severely immuno-compromised patients.
Akileswaran +30 more
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Naive T Cells Share Hypermethylation Sites With Synoviocytes. [PDF]
ObjectiveTo determine whether differentially methylated CpGs in synovium-derived fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were also differentially methylated in RA peripheral blood (PB) samples.MethodsFor this study ...
Barcellos, Lisa F +16 more
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