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Spinal tuberculosis in HIV positive and negative patients: immunological response and clinical outcome
S Govender1, K Annamalai, K P Kumar
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Natal, Congella, Durban, South Africa. thompson@med.und.ac.za
International Orthopaedics
|September 16, 2000
Abstract:
We measured cytokine secretion patterns in peripheral blood and granulation tissue by flow cytometry in 16 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive and 26 HIV negative patients with spinal tuberculosis. Anti-retroviral therapy was not prescribed. There were no significant differences in the postoperative morbidity and neurological recovery between the two groups.