New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?

On February 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that a city resident had recently been infected with a multi-drug resistant form of HIV and rapidly progressed to AIDS. The Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, called for increased vigilance against this ne...

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Autor principal: Smith, Stephen M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC554760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15743534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-2-14
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description On February 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that a city resident had recently been infected with a multi-drug resistant form of HIV and rapidly progressed to AIDS. The Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, called for increased vigilance against this new strain. Is this situation an emerging crisis or simply an unusual case report of rapid HIV progression?
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spelling pubmed-5547602005-03-18 New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not? Smith, Stephen M Retrovirology Commentary On February 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that a city resident had recently been infected with a multi-drug resistant form of HIV and rapidly progressed to AIDS. The Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, called for increased vigilance against this new strain. Is this situation an emerging crisis or simply an unusual case report of rapid HIV progression? BioMed Central 2005-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC554760/ /pubmed/15743534 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-2-14 Text en Copyright © 2005 Smith; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?
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title_full New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?
title_fullStr New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?
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title_short New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC554760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15743534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-2-14
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