HIV-related Death: Predicting Fatal Fungal Infections
Friday, July 3, 2009 - 23:35
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive individuals are most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis affects more than 900,000 HIV-infected people globally--most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas of the world where antiretroviral therapy for HIV is not available.
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