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Simple guidelines for HIV testing in the physician's practice.

L H Calabrese·D Condoluci
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This monthly series was developed from the AOA Task Force on AIDS Writers' Workshop, held August 16 to 18, 1991, in New York. The workshop was sponsored by an education grant from Burroughs Wellcome. It will provide brief clinical updates and perspectives on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Readers may request tear sheets from the AOA editorial offices.

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L H Calabrese, D Condoluci. 1992. Simple guidelines for HIV testing in the physician's practice.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1601692/

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