"TB Infection in HIV Infected Patients: An Adjunctive Risk for HIV Progression?."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Ninth Symposium on HIV Infection entitled From Virology ... To Therapy, held March 6-8, 1997, in Toulon, France, "Aim of the study: To evaluate the survival of HIV infected patients from the onset of tuberculosis, either pulmonary or extrapulmonary. Methods: We evaluated the survival by means of Kaplan-Meier curves in 59 cases of TB in HIV-infected patients. We also evaluated the time elapsing from the TB episode to the occurrence of other opportunistic infections (survival from AIDS defining events). Results: the 50% survival time (50% of patients still alive) was 1395 days for those patients with more...

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