Postmortem findings and opportunistic infections in HIV-positive patients from a public hospital in Peru.

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Published in Pathol Res Pract on September 19, 2006

Authors

Dominique Eza1, Gustavo Cerrillo, David A J Moore, Cecilia Castro, Eduardo Ticona, Domingo Morales, Jose Cabanillas, Fernando Barrantes, Alejandro Alfaro, Alejandro Benavides, Arturo Rafael, Gilberto Valladares, Fernando Arevalo, Carlton A Evans, Robert H Gilman

Author Affiliations

1: Departamento de Laboratorio y Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, Parque Historia de la Medicina Peruana s/n, Altura de Cuadra 13 Avenida Grau, Lima 1, Perú. dominiqueeeza@yahoo.co.uk

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