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All India Institute Med Science, New Delhi

HAART plus TB DOT strategy improves outcome of HIV/TB coinfected patients

Published in Drug Law Weekly, August 16th, 2005

HAART plus a directly observed short treatment strategy for tuberculosis improves the outcome of HIV/tuberculosis coinfected patients.

"HIV/AIDS pandemic has caused a resurgence of TB, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality worldwide. HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have a synergistic interaction; each accentuates progression of the other," scientists writing in the Indian Journal of Medical Research report.

"Clinical presentation of TB in early HIV infection resembles that observed in immunocompetent persons. In late HIV infection, however, TB is often atypical in presentation, frequently causing extrapulmonary disease....

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