A superiority of viral load over CD4 cell count when predicting mortality in HIV patients on therapy
Abstract Background CD4 cell count has been identified to be an essential component in monitoring HIV treatment outcome. However, CD4 cell count monitoring sometimes fails to predict virological failure resulting in unnecessary switch of treatment lines which causes drug resistance and limitations o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-02-01
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| Series: | BMC Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-3781-1 |