Less is more? STI in acute and chronic HIV-1 infection.

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Published in Nat Med on August 01, 2001

Authors

M Altfeld1, B D Walker

Author Affiliations

1: Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. maltfeld@partners.org

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