Diarrhoea and weight loss are found in more than 50% of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In some patients the symptoms can be very severe, leading to death even in the absence of opportunistic infections. In 30% of these patients, enteric pathogens cannot be identified, a
Secretory immunoglobulins in serum from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients
✍ Scribed by Claude Vincent; Grégoire Cozon; Michèle Zittoun; Malin Mellquist; Michel D. Kazatchkine; Cecil Czerkinsky; Jean-Pierre Revillard
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 893 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-9142
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