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| Sá,Márcia Sampaio; Sampaio,Julio; Haguihara,Thiago; Ventin,Fernando Oak; Brites,Carlos. |
| In Brazil, current trends of the AIDS epidemic include an increase in transmission through heterosexual contact, predominantly from men to women, with more cases of AIDS in women and more children contaminated by vertical transmission. There is also a high proportion of cases in poor people or people living in small towns. HIV-infected patients with high levels of immunodeficiency are frequently hospitalized after their first visit to the clinic due to opportunistic infections, characteristic of advanced disease. This study characterized the clinical and laboratory pattern of AIDS in a sample of patients attended for the first time in the AIDS clinic of the Federal University of Bahia Hospital (HUPES) in Salvador, Brazil. We revised medical charts of cases... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: AIDS; HIV infection; Stage of disease; Brazil. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000400004 |
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