AIDS-associated diarrhea and wasting in northeast Brazil is associated with subtherapeutic plasma levels of antiretroviral medications and with both bovine and human subtypes of Cryptosporidium parvum

Advanced HIV infection is frequently complicated by diarrhea, disruption of bowel structure and function, and malnutrition. Resulting malabsorption of or pharmacokinetic changes in antiretroviral agents might lead to subtherapeutic drug dosing and treatment failure in individual patients, and could...

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Main Authors: Richard K. Brantley, K. Robert Williams, Terezinha M.J. Silva, Maria Sistrom, Nathan M. Thielman, Honorine Ward, Aldo A. M. Lima, Richard L. Guerrant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
HIV
ddI
D4T
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000100003&lng=en&tlng=en