Sidgi Syed Anwer Hasson, Mohammed Saeed Al-Balushi, Muzna Hamed Al Yahmadi, Juma Zaid Al-Busaidi, Elias Antony Said, Mohammed Shafeeq Othman, Talal Abdullah Sallam, Mohammed Ahmad Idris, Ali Abdullah Al-Jabri
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the levels of zinc-α-2-glycoprotein (ZAG) among Omani AIDS patients receiving combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). METHODS: A total of 80 Omani AIDS patients (45 males and 35 females), average age of 36 years, who were receiving cART at the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), Muscat, Oman, were tested for the levels of ZAG. In addition, 80 healthy blood donors (46 males and 34 females), average age of 26 years, attending the SQUH Blood Bank, were tested in parallel as a control group...
August 2014: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine