Symptomatic Hyperlactatemia: Lessons Learned Using a Point-of-Care Device in a Health Care Center- and Nurse-Based Antiretroviral Program in Rwanda
Open Access
- 15 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 46 (2) , 320-322
- https://doi.org/10.1086/524085
Abstract
To the Editor—We read with interest the article by Songa et al. [1], because we are similarly confronted with the frequent occurrence of symptomatic hyperlactatKeywords
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