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Prevalence of syphilis, neurosyphilis and associated factors in a cross-sectional analysis of HIV infected patients attending Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: HIV-syphilis co-infection can enhance the rapid progression of early or late latent syphilis to neurosyphilis and can cause catastrophic neurological complications. In studies in Mwanza, syphilis affects ~ 8% of healthy outpatients and studies done in the 1990s have suggested that up to...

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Autores principales: Haule, Adeodatus, Msemwa, Betrand, Mgaya, Evarista, Masikini, Peter, Kalluvya, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7718654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33276749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09984-9