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An HIV-Positive Patient with Back Pain: Too Many Choices

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Cecilia T. Costiniuk has received a Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) Fellowship.

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  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Cecilia T. Costiniuk MD, MSc, FRCPC

  2. Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, McIntyre Medical Building, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada

    Feras M. Ghazawi PhD, MSc, M.D. C.M. (c)

  3. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Stephen Kravcik MD, MSc, FRCPC

  4. Ottawa Hospital-General Campus, L2137, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8 L6

    Stephen Kravcik MD, MSc, FRCPC

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Costiniuk, C.T., Ghazawi, F.M. & Kravcik, S. An HIV-Positive Patient with Back Pain: Too Many Choices. J GEN INTERN MED 29, 680–684 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2742-4

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