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01-05-2014 | Poster presentation
Causes of prolonged fever among HIV infected patients- utility of an algorithmic approach - a single centre study from south India
Authors:
Sudheer Aree Parambil, Nitin Hosmelkar, Rajendra Prasad Shivaswamy
Published in:
BMC Infectious Diseases
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
Availability of ART for the last one decade has changed the pattern of morbidity among HIV infected patients. Researchers from Christian Medical College Vellore had developed an algorithm for evaluation of prolonged fever in the pre HAART era in India. The purpose of this study was to assess utility of this algorithm in the current HAART era to identify causes of prolonged fever and correlate with CD4 count, WHO staging and ART status. …