Think HIV -: Why physicians should lower their threshold for HIV testing

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作者
Freedberg, KA
Samet, JH
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[1] Boston Med Ctr, Clin Econ Res Unit, Gen Internal Med Sect, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02118 USA
[2] Boston Med Ctr, Clin AIDS Program, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02118 USA
[3] Boston Med Ctr, Evans Med Fdn, Boston, MA 02118 USA
[4] Boston Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA 02118 USA
[5] Boston Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol & Biostat, Boston, MA USA
[6] Boston Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Social & Behav Sci, Boston, MA USA
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10.1001/archinte.159.17.1994
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
More than 1 million people in the United States are estimated to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a national prevalence of 0.3%.(1) About half of those infected are men who have sex with men and a quarter are injection drug users. The incidence of HIV infection appears to have leveled off among men who have sex with men hut continues to rise in injection drug users, women, and persons who have acquired HIV infection through heterosexual contact.(2)
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页码:1994 / 2000
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