These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS co-infection in children: experience carried out in paediatric service of the teaching hospital of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (1995-2004)].
    Author: M'Pemba Loufoua Lemay AB, Mabiala Babela JR, Bantsimba T, Nzingoula S.
    Journal: Bull Soc Pathol Exot; 2007 Feb; 100(1):51-2. PubMed ID: 17402697.
    Abstract:
    Epidemiologic, clinical and paraclinical data of 126 children with tuberculosis whose HIV status was known, have been compared. Among them, 65% were HIV positive, the co-infection tuberculosis HIV/AIDS was observed in all social categories. The source of contamination was discovered for 72% of the patients. The mother was involved in 47.5% of cases. The main reasons of consultation were a long standing fever a chronic cough and a weight loss. Diarrhea was mainly observed in positive HIV patients (p = 0.00). The general condition was influenced by a weight loss which was more important in positive patients with a IMC lower than 10 in 12.8% of cases. There was no significant difference between all clinical forms. Digital hippocratism, chronic otitis and parotiditis were only observed in positive HIV patients with skin illness ten times more frequent (p = 0.00). Anergia to tuberculin tests (78.4%) and a sedimentation speed up to 100 mm at the first hour were observed in more than 60% of the positive HIV patients (p = 0.001). Evolution was favorable under treatment for 84% of positive HIV patients with an increasing weight becoming weaker after one month of treatment. All deaths happened among that population.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]