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Second episode of tuberculosis in an HIV-infected child: relapse or reinfection?
H S Schaaf1, R P Gie, A van Rie
1Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa.
The Journal of Infection
|October 21, 2000
Abstract:
We report a case of an HIV-infected child with a second episode of tuberculosis 22 months after completing antituberculosis treatment. DNA fingerprinting of organisms from both episodes showed an identical strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We believe this to be the first case of confirmed relapsed tuberculosis in an HIV-infected child, and suggest that a longer course of antituberculosis treatment be given to such children. ¿ 2000 The British Infection Society.