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: [AIDS and tuberculosis].
    Author: Zajaczkowska J, Kamińska E, Babiuch L.
    Journal: Przegl Epidemiol; 1991; 45(4):361-3. PubMed ID: 1841417.
    Abstract:
    From Jan. 1, 1989, through July, 1, 1991, 193 patients with HIV infection were treated at the Department of Acquired Immunodeficiency, Infectious diseases Hospital in Warsaw. Tuberculosis was diagnosed in 11 (5.7%) cases; in three cases diagnosis was first established post mortem. In eight cases tuberculosis was diagnosed clinically and confirm by microbiologic or histologic examinations. Antituberculous chemotherapy was successful in five cases (early results). All 11 patients had other concomitant infections or neoplasms. Six of 11 patients died, of them 3 with misdiagnosis of tuberculosis prior to death. The problem of HIV infection and tuberculosis and its impact on epidemiology of tuberculosis is discussed.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]