Epidemiology (HIV/TB)
"High Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Falling Prevalence of HIV, Miami, Florida."
Published in AIDS Weekly, September 16th, 1996
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 11th International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Objective: To describe HIV prevalence in relation to incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) among attendants of the Chest Clinics at the Department of Public Health in Miami, Florida. Methods: Review of computerized clinical records of the four Miami TB clinics for 1991-1995. Results: Of 28,372 clients attending the Miami TB clinics between January 1991 - December 1995; 4,367 (15%) were diagnosed with Pulmonary TB (pulm-TB); 2925 (10%) were TB suspects; 1005 (4%) had Mycobacterial infections other than TB...
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