HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
Research in the area of HIV/AIDS co-infection reported from L. Lawson and colleagues
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 7th, 2007
A new study, "Short-term bleach digestion of sputum in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients co-infected with HIV," is now available. "The bleach digestion of sputum may improve the yield of smear microscopy but has not been validated in patients with HIV. Therefore we assessed the performance of bleach-digested smear microscopy among patients with HIV," researchers in Abuja, Nigeria report.
"One thousand three hundred and twenty one patients with chronic cough submitted three sputum samples for direct smear microscopy and were offered HIV tests. One sample was selected for a bleach-digested smear and another one was cultured. Patients were classified as...
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