Correction: CD4 and Viral Load Dynamics in Antiretroviral-Naïve HIV-Infected Adults from Soweto, South Africa: A Prospective Cohort
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There is an error in the fourth sentence of the Results section in the Abstract. The correct sentence is: The overall mean decline in CD4 count was 3.2 cells/mm 3 per annum. Copyright: © 2015 Martinson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Correction: Correction: CD4 and Viral Load Dynamics in Antiretroviral-Naïve HIV-Infected Adults from Soweto, South Africa: A Prospective Cohort
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130509.].
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015