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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
New HIV/AIDS co-infection study results reported from E.C. Duarte et al
March 24th, 2009
According to recent research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, "Tuberculosis remains an important public health problem in Brazil where over 100 000 new cases and 6000 deaths are reported every year. Current drug efficacy and wide availability should have curbed this toll." "The goal was to study the factors associated with death in incident cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) during treatment. This is a case-control study including all new cases of PT reported between 2000 and 2004; cases were patients who died of any cause and controls were those cured after initial PT treatment. Data analyses included unconditional multiple...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-24)
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