Optimizing Initial Therapy for HIV Infection
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Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection
The HIV/AIDS is now twenty five years old and, in these 25 years, more than 60 million people have been infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). As on December 2006, nearly 39.5 million people globally are living with HIV/AIDS1. During this period, lot of efforts have gone into understanding the structure of viruses, its molecular biology and the pathogenesis of disease. The information ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1537-6613,0022-1899
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir506