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Meningitis

Symptoms Differ in HIV Patients

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 20th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Patients suffering from both HIV infection and tuberculous meningitis have markedly different symptom profiles than HIV negative tuberculous meningitis patients, neurologists in India observed.

"As human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection primarily impairs cellular immunity, the immune responses of HIV infected individuals to tuberculous bacilli may be inadequate," S.M. Katrak and colleagues explained in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences.

Katrak et al. tested this hypothesis, comparing the clinical and pathological features of 22 HIV positive patients with concomitant tuberculous meningitis...

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