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THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS

Medical Clinics of North America, 1996
There indeed seems to be a new mood of optimism in researchers and clinicians studying HIVs and patients infected with these viruses. A new understanding of the virology, biology, and therapy of HIV-1 includes the following: (1) The level of HIV-1 viremia, as measured by the HIV-1 plasma RNA, is a critical determinant of the time to development of AIDS
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Atherosclerosis

Cardiology in Review, 2009
The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy has led to a significant decline in the incidence of mortality and progression to AIDS in HIV-infection. With increased life expectancy, HIV-infected individuals are being affected by cardiovascular disease.
Peter M, Farrugia, Richard, Lucariello, John T, Coppola   +2 more
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The Surgeon and Human Immunodeficiency Virus

World Journal of Surgery, 2003
AbstractThe moral dilemmas faced by surgeons worldwide who treat patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be viewed against the background of experience in sub‐Saharan countries, where the community prevalence is in excess of 25% (90% of hospital inpatients).
Jens, Mielke, Kazadi K N, Kalangu
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Human immunodeficiency virus and pregnancy

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2009
Management of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dramatically improved during the 1990s. The advent of high-performance quantitative HIV assays and highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) were the two most important developments in HIV medicine. As a result, HIV mortality and morbidity have significantly reduced.
Parveen, Reshi, Iqbal M, Lone
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Antigenemia

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987
The article by Kessler et al 1 in this issue ofThe Journaldescribes the acute illness associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in four individuals. Of interest was the detection of HIV antigenemia during the course of this self-limited illness before enzyme-linked immunosorbent and Western blot assays for antibody to HIV became ...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Reproduction

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1991
HIV and AIDS increasingly plague women throughout the world. Female infection and mortality are staggering in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and rising in the Americas and parts of western Europe. In the urban centers of these regions the World Health Organization estimates AIDS is the leading cause of death for reproductive age women.
L, Mandelbrot, R, Henrion
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Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986
Excerpt More than a million Americans are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, formerly HTLV-III/LAV), and their risk for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) may exceed 30...
J A, Stankaitis, J P, Bigos
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Nomenclature: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986
Excerpt A subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has recommended that the retrovirus isolates identified as causative agents for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (...
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Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Southern Medical Journal, 2002
The term "primary HIV infection" refers to the period from initial infection with the human immunodeficiency virus to complete seroconversion. It is a period of extreme infectiousness. The occurrence and severity of symptoms during primary HIV infection correlate with the rapidity of clinical and immunologic decline.
Babafemi O, Taiwo, Charles B, Hicks
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The epidemiology of the human immunodeficiency virus

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1990
During the past decade, AIDS has become a global health problem with 182,000 cases reported from 152 countries. It is estimated that nearly five to ten million people are infected worldwide with the etiologic agent of AIDS, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).
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