Managing HIV. Part 4: Primary therapy. 4.3 The laboratory in managing HIV infection.
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Abstract
The CD4 cell 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.