Prevalence and associated risk factors for Kaposi’s sarcoma among HIV-positive patients in a referral hospital in Northern Tanzania: a retrospective hospital-based study

BACKGROUND: Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a multifocal angioproliferative tumor involving blood and lymphatic vessels, caused by Human Herpes Virus-8 (HHV-8). KS is an important AIDS-defining tumor with high prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania which has high HIV and HHV-8 sero-prevalence...

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Autores principales: Semango, George P., Charles, Renard M., Swai, Consolata I., Mremi, Alex, Amsi, Patrick, Sonda, Tolbert, Shao, Elichilia R., Mavura, Daudi R., Joosten, Leo A. B., Sauli, Elingarami, Nyindo, Mramba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30558571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-5155-2

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