Increasing clinical virulence in two decades of the Italian HIV epidemic.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on May 29, 2009

Authors

Viktor Müller1, Franco Maggiolo, Fredy Suter, Nicoletta Ladisa, Andrea De Luca, Andrea Antinori, Laura Sighinolfi, Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, Giampiero Carosi, Carlo Torti

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. viktor.mueller@env.ethz.ch

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