Risk factors for disseminated histoplasmosis in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in French Guiana.

• Main Authors: Mathieu Nacher (Author), Antoine Adenis (Author), Denis Blanchet (Author), Vincent Vantilcke (Author), Magalie Demar (Author), Célia Basurko (Author), Emilie Gaubert-Maréchal (Author), Julie Dufour (Author), Christine Aznar (Author), Bernard Carme (Author), Pierre Couppié (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Disseminated histoplasmosis is the first AIDS-defining infection in French Guiana. A retrospective cohort study studied predictive factors of disseminated histoplasmosis in HIV-infected patients between 1996 and 2008. Cox proportional hazards models were used. The variables studied were age, sex, la...