HIV/AIDS-Related Tuberculosis
AIDS-related mycobacterial reactivation may result from T-cell immunity loss
Published in AIDS Weekly, February 28th, 2005
According to published research from the United States, "The immune mechanisms associated with the evolution from latent to clinically active mycobacterial coinfection in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected humans remain poorly understood.
"Previous work has demonstrated that macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVmac) can develop persistent Mycobacterium bovis BCG coinfection and a fatal SIV-related tuberculosis-like disease by 4 months after BCG inoculation."
"In the present study," wrote Y. Shen and...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2005-02-28)
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