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Seizure in HIV-infected Patients: Clinical Presentation, Cause and Treatment Outcome in Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study

2020-09-08

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<h4>Background: </h4> The estimated number of adult patients living with HIV infection in Ethiopia in 2012 was approximately 800,000. Seizure occurs in 2 to 3 % and 6.1 % to 34.3% in patients with HIV infection and patients with neurological complications of HIV infection, respectively. Studies on HIV infection and seizure are rare in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to assess clinical presentation, cause a...

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Literature Corpus work: 29fa7a3b-4df8-5ea1-ab7a-68c6b299d3d0
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-66079/v1

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