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4.3 The laboratory in managing HIV infection
Author(s) -
Dwyer Dominic E,
Cunningham Anthony L,
Adelstein Stephen,
Merigan Thomas C
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb94197.x
Subject(s) - viral load , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , clinical practice , viral infection , virology , medicine , immunology , measure (data warehouse) , intensive care medicine , computer science , virus , family medicine , data mining
The CD4 ceil count is a useful guide to the clinical stages of HIV infection, although it is only an indirect measure of viral activity. More direct measures of viral load will eventually become part of clinical practice.