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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
A new more effective tuberculosis screening test for HIV victims
March 18th, 2008
World Health Organization (WHO) figures show that each year an estimated 9 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) arise in the world. The growth of this disease remains particularly strong in Africa owing to a high proportion of HIV patients (nearly 13% compared with less than 1% in Asian countries for example). This region of the world is experiencing accelerating advance of a deadly combination of AIDS and TB, developed because the virus weakens the immune system of TB-infected individuals. A person infected by HIV who is also contaminated with Koch's bacillus bears a greater risk of developing active TB than a non HIV-infected individual. Latent TB infection diagnosis has for several...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-03-18)
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