CD4 cell counts
Utility of CD4 cell counts for early prediction of virological failure during antiretroviral therapy in a resource limited setting
... of CD4 cell counts and CD4 cell count changes among those with virological failure did not differ significantly from those of patients who maintained virological suppression, these ...
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Improved antiretroviral treatment outcome in a rural African setting is associated with cART initiation at higher CD4 cell counts and better general health condition
... In this prospective cohort study including 1,463 HIV- infected treatment-naïve adults who started cART between 2005 and 2008 assisted by a personal adherence supporter, improved survival was associated with higher ...
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Trends in baseline CD4 cell counts and risk factors for late antiretroviral therapy initiation among HIV positive patients in Shanghai, a retrospective cross sectional study
... the CD4 cell counts and infection routes, were all significantly different between the late ART initiation patients and the non-late ART group (P < ...
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Bayesian Joint Modelling of Survival Time and Longitudinal CD4 Cell Counts Using Accelerated Failure Time and Generalized Error Distributions
... months interval. The survival outcome is the time in months of a patient to the associated death event. Explanatory variables for the longitudinal response are: visit time, square of visit time, sex, functional status, ...
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Plasma concentrations of soluble Fas receptors (Fas) and Fas ligands (FasL) in relation to CD4+ cell counts in HIV 1 positive and negative patients in Yaounde, Cameroon
... While this study is strengthened by the inclusion of sam- ples from Cameroon, with high HIV diversity, some limita- tions need to be considered. The relatively small sample size may have lowered the power to identify ...
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Study of cardiovascular manifestations in treatment naive HIV patients and patients on HAART and its correlation with CD4+ cell counts in a tertiary care centre
... no significance was elicited (p value 0.17). But 8 patients who were not on HAART and 11 patients on HAART had TR and also it implies that HAART was significantly associated with the occurrence of TR (p value 0.03). ...
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A Study on Maternal Viral Load, CD4 Cell Counts and Time of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV 1 in Two Hospitals in Central Ethiopia
... In our study, low birth weight was associated only with intra-partum transmission. This result is also in agree- ment with other studies [13] [15] but it is in contrary to study conducted in Thailand that showed the ...
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Severe malnutrition with and without HIV-1 infection in hospitalised children in Kampala, Uganda: differences in clinical features, haematological findings and CD4+cell counts
... blood cell (WBC) count and differen- tials and presence of malarial parasites), HIV tests (ELISA and RNA PCR), microbial tests (blood and urine culture and sensitivity), immunologic tests (CD4 + and CD8 + ...
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MicroRNA regulation and its effects on cellular transcriptome in Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV 1) infected individuals with distinct viral load and CD4 cell counts
... PBMCs, CD4+ T- lymphocytes, CD8+ T-lymphocytes, monocytes and/or brain tissue from HIV-1 infected subjects ...of cell specific miRNAs that are differentially regulated by HIV- 1 ...infected CD4+ T ...
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Choosing the right strategy to model longitudinal count data in Epidemiology: An application with CD4 cell counts
... with CD4 + counts above 350 cells/mm³ at baseline had a mean number of CD4 cells which was 43% greater than those with counts below that ...of CD4+ ...
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CD4 cell counts and presence of AIDS in HIV positive patients entering specialized care—a comparison of migrant groups in the German ClinSurv HIV Cohort Study, 1999–2013
... and CD4 T-cell count) of HIV infection as well as information on ART (date of initiation, com- bination of drug classes in therapy regimes, therapy interruption) are recorded upon enrolment and updated for ...
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Combined models for pre- and post-treatment longitudinal biomarker data: an application to CD4 counts in HIV-patients
... treatment have not been randomised and in which base- line observations immediately prior to treatment may not be available for all patients. Furthermore, there is often substantial interest in the influence of the ...
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Antiplasmodial Efficacy of Crude Cocoa Powder Extract on CD4+ T Cell Counts of Plasmodium berghei Infected BALB/c Mice
... for CD4+ cell ...of CD4+ cells while the negative control group that received normal saline had progressive increase of ...The CD4+ cells counted increased in both strains treated before and ...
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Opportunistic parasitoses among Egyptian hemodialysis patients in relation to CD4+ T cell counts: a comparative study
... HD. CD4+ cell counts < 200 cells/ μ l can be significantly associated with a higher infection rate with Cryptosporidium spe- cies, microsporidia and ...
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CD4 Counts Decline Despite Nutritional Recovery in HIV-Infected Zambian Children With Severe Malnutrition
... compare CD4 cell counts from the same children on admission, discharge, and recovery, enabling us to assess changes in CD4 count during nutritional ...that CD4 percent- ages tended to ...
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Spectrum of opportunistic infections with correlation to CD4 counts in newly diagnosed HIV seropositive cases
... patients with bacterial meningitis was 72.3 (1-302) cells/µl and with Cryptococcal meningitis 61.2 (1-238) cells/µl indicating that CD4 counts in HIV patients with fungal meningitis are lower than bacterial ...
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A Prospective study of Various CNS Manifestations Associated with HIV/AIDS and to study a relationship between it and CD4 counts
... Strokes and TIAs can occur in HIV patients(1.5% of advanced HIV). Though mostly due to opportunistic infection, in more than half there is no attribute apart from the HIV virus itself. A complex mix of effects of ...
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Haematological Indices and Absolute CD4 Counts of Apparently Healthy Population in Ondo State, Nigeria
... absolute CD4 T cell count at ...higher CD4 counts than males as earlier described by other investigators [7,17], which might be as a result of haemopoietic feedback stimulus following monthly ...
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CD4 Counts in Capillary and Venous Blood Samples
... in CD4 counts from capillary samples compared to venous samples when using the same cell counting technology in adult HIV ...in CD4 cell count is insignificant in most circumstances, ...
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Is it still worthwhile to perform quarterly cd4+ t lymphocyte cell counts on hiv 1 infected stable patients?
... ducing CD4+ monitoring in stable patients was finally ...frequent CD4+ cell counts were estimated assuming two alterna- tive scenarios: in the first one it was assumed that all stable patients ...
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