Long-Term Trends in Esophageal Candidiasis Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors with or without HIV Infection: Lessons from an Endoscopic Study of 80,219 Patients.

Long-Term Trends in Esophageal Candidiasis Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors with or without HIV Infection: Lessons from an Endoscopic Study of 80,219 Patients.

The prevalence of candida esophagitis (CE) might be changing in an era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among HIV-infected patients or today's rapidly aging society among non-HIV-infected patients. However, few studies have investigated long-term CE trends, and CE risk factors ha...

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Main Authors: Yuta Takahashi, Naoyoshi Nagata, Takuro Shimbo, Takeshi Nishijima, Koji Watanabe, Tomonori Aoki, Katsunori Sekine, Hidetaka Okubo, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Chizu Yokoi, Masao Kobayakawa, Hirohisa Yazaki, Katsuji Teruya, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Yoshimi Kikuchi, Sohtaro Mine, Toru Igari, Yuko Takahashi, Akio Mimori, Shinichi Oka, Junichi Akiyama, Naomi Uemura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4514810?pdf=render

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