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[Course of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection]
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv
|December 25, 2002
Abstract
Aim:
To evaluate clinical features of tuberculosis in correlation with HIV-infection duration.
Material And Methods:
117 patients with HIV-infection were divided into three groups: HIV-infected in the presence of long-standing tuberculosis (group 1), HIV- and tuberculosis-infected simultaneously (group 2), tuberculosis-infected 5-10 years after getting HIV-infection.
Conclusion:
Clinical picture and course of tuberculous infection in HIV-infected patients depend on the time of getting HIV-infection and are determined by the severity of T-cell immunodeficiency.
Results:
Tuberculosis runs its usual course in patients of groups 1 and 2. In group 3 tuberculosis ran atypically, had lethal outcome due to either tuberculosis or opportunistic infections.