Emerging Diseases

TB Infection Causes Fatal Bloodstream Infections

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 2nd, 1998

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the most frequent cause of fatal bloodstream infection in HIV positive, febrile hospitalized adults in Tanzania, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The isolation of pathogens normally regarded as nonopportunistic from HIV infected patients in industrialized countries has been well documented. Gilks et al. in Nairobi were the first to describe the importance of bloodstream infections (BSIs) in African adults infected with HIV-1 (Lancet 1990;336:545-549). Subsequent studies that investigated BSIs in HIV positive patients in Rwanda and the Ivory Coast suggested that infections due to...

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