A Prospective Study of Tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Clinical Manifestations and Factors Associated with Survival

We prospectively studied the effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on the presentation and outcome of tuberculosis. A total of 216 patients with tuberculosis were identified; 162 (75%) of these patients were tested for antibodies to HIV; 92 (57%) were seropositive. The patients who...

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Published in:	Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 661 - 668
Main Authors:	Alpert, Peter L., Munsiff, Sonal S., Gourevitch, Marc N., Greenberg, Barbara, Klein, Robert S.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, IL The University of Chicago Press 01-04-1997 University of Chicago Press
Subjects:	Aged Aged, 80 and over AIDS AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - drug therapy AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - microbiology AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - mortality AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - physiopathology AIDS/HIV Antitubercular Agents Antituberculars Biological and medical sciences CD4 Lymphocyte Count Clinical Articles Drug Resistance, Microbial Drug Resistance, Multiple Epidemiology Female HIV HIV infections human immunodeficiency virus Humans Immunodeficiencies Immunodeficiencies. Immunoglobulinopathies Immunopathology Infections Male Medical sciences Multivariate Analysis Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - drug effects Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Prospective Studies Pulmonary tuberculosis Risk Factors Sputum Survivors Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - drug therapy Tuberculosis - microbiology Tuberculosis - mortality Tuberculosis - physiopathology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Human Immunopathology Opportunistic infection Prognosis AIDS Mycobacterial infection Immune deficiency Survival Infection Symptomatology Tuberculosis Viral disease Bacteriosis Complication
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