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Tuberculosis
Data from Johns Hopkins University provide new insights into tuberculosis
February 24th, 2009
According to recent research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, "Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has beneficial effects on mortality and lowers the incidence of diseases caused by opportunistic infections, such as tuberculosis (TB). Although ART has sustained long-term benefits, the risk of TB is high during the first 3 months after ART initiation." "Among cases of ART-associated TB, we define ''unmasked TB'' as that which occurs in patients with reactivation disease who develop clinically recognizable TB after ART with the restoration of previously acquired TB antigen-specific functional immune responses. TB cases with clinical evidence of an...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-24)
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