TB/HIV Coinfection
"Progression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Patients with Tuberculosis Disease."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 31st, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Epidemiology, "To assess the role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the authors compared survival of tuberculosis patients and controls matched on year of HIV diagnosis and CD4+ lymphocyte count. Patients were selected in the Aquitaine Cohort, which follows, since 1985, all patients infected with HIV, aged more than 13 years, in five hospitals. Time of inclusion of controls was the date of diagnosis of tuberculosis for the corresponding tuberculosis patient. Patients who had received primary prophylaxis against mycobacteria other than...
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