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Spectrum of disease in Africans with AIDS in London

DOI

87

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0

References

1996

Year

Julia del Amo, Ann Petruckevitch, Andrew N. Phillips, Margaret Johnson, Judith Stephenson, N Desmond, Thomas Hänscheid, Nicola Low, A Newell, Angela Obasi,
AIDS

Abstract

HIV-infected African patients presented at lower levels of CD4+ lymphocyte count, at a more advanced clinical stage, and with different AIDS-indicator diseases as compared with non-Africans. Prophylaxis against tuberculosis should be considered for all HIV-infected African patients in industrialized countries. The high incidence of diseases that are indicative of advanced immunodeficiency (e.g., cytomegalovirus disease) in African patients contrasts with data from Africa, suggesting better survival chances in the UK.