"Pathological Findings of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) in HIV Infected and Uninfected Subjects."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to The Lancet Conference 'The Challenge of Tuberculosis', held September 14-15, 1995, in Washington, D.C., "Depending on the degree of HIV related immune suppression, clinical presentation of HIV associated pulmonary TB may greatly differ from the disease forms encountered in the seronegative population. To see whether analogous differences may be found at the pathologic level we carried out a comparative evaluation of the macro- and microscopic findings obtained by bronchoscopy in HIV+ve and HIV-ve patients with pulmonary TB. 16 HIV+ve and 16 sex/age matched HIV-ve patients with culture-proven pulmonary TB underwent bronchoscopy with...

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