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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
New HIV/AIDS co-infection research from S. Charalambous and colleagues discussed
September 2nd, 2008
"A gold mine in South Africa. To investigate incidence and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) recurrence and the relative contribution of reinfection and relapse to recurrence," researchers in South Africa report. "Prospective cohort study. Employees cured of a first episode of culture-positive TB were followed up for recurrence, which was classified as reinfection or relapse by restriction fragment length polymorphism using an insertion sequence (IS) 6110 probe. Among 609 patients, 5 7 experienced recurrence during a median follow-up period of 1.02 years, corresponding to a recurrence rate of 7.89 per 100 person-years (py). The culture positive recurrence rate was...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-02)
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