Substitutions due to antiretroviral toxicity or contraindication in the first 3 years of antiretroviral therapy in a large South African cohort.

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Published in Antivir Ther on January 01, 2007

Authors

Andrew Boulle1, Catherine Orrel, Richard Kaplan, Gilles Van Cutsem, Matthew McNally, Katherine Hilderbrand, London Myer, Matthias Egger, David Coetzee, Gary Maartens, Robin Wood, International Epidemiological Databases to Evaluate Aids in Southern Africa Collaboration

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. andrew.boulle@uct.ac.za

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