TB/HIV Coinfection
"Nosocomial Spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 10th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Infectious Diseases, "A steep upsurge of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was recently observed at a referral treatment center in Buenos Aires City [Argentina]. Between January 1994 and June 1995, TB isolates resistant to at least five drugs were recovered from 101 of 272 HIV infected inpatients. Highly resistant isolates from 77 patients underwent restriction fragment length polymorphism study with IS6110. After cross-contamination was eliminated, a single TB strain was found to have caused disease in 68 patients with a history of on-site exposure. The...
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