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    <language>eng</language>
          <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia</journalTitle>
          <issn>0973-1245</issn>
            <publicationDate>2016-03-14</publicationDate>
    
        <volume>5</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>

 
    <startPage>691</startPage>
    <endPage>698</endPage>

	    <publisherRecordId>7241</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Oral Manifestation of Aids</title>

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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">*Hindu College of Pharmacy, Amaravathi Road, Guntur, University College of Pharmacy, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (India).</affiliationName>
    

		
		
		
		
		
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    <abstract language="eng">No other word endangers as much fear, revulsion, despair and utter helplessness as AIDS. AIDS is the collection of symptoms and infection resulting from specific damage to the immune system caused by HIV in humans. HIV is readily transmitted through blood apart from other body fluids and our profession involves abundant contact with the same. Many a time, HIV positive dental patient goes undetected not only due to “Window Period” of the infection, but also due to ignorance and negligence. Since the discovery of the virus, many new aspects about this virus has come into fore, which many of us need to be updated about. Oral lesions associated with HIV infection, as classified by the EC-Clearinghouse on Oral Problems related to HIV infection and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Oral manifestations of the immunodeficiency virus, were studied in 600 consecutive HIV-infected patients in Cape Town, South Africa.</abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol5no2/oral-manifestation-of-aids/</fullTextUrl>



      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword>AIDS; HIV; Oral manifestation and oral Diseases</keyword>
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