[Tuberculosis and HIV infection: study of 50 cases]

The clinical, microbiological, radiological and sonographical finding of 50 patients with tuberculosis and HIV infection are herewith described. 44 of the patients were men and 46 were intravenous drug addicts. Severe respiratory symptoms and peripheral pathological adenopathies were the most encountered manifestations. Those patients with tuberculosis and negative HIV titers (p less than 0.005) commonly showed lung miliary signs and mediastinal adenopathies when compared to others. Abdominal adenopathies evidenced by sonography were seen in 64.3% of the patients, of which only 2 out of the 27 HIV-positive-markers were of no tuberculous origin (p less than 0.0001). Sputum, urine and ganglia cultures were positive in more than 82%. 24 patients had pulmonary tuberculosis, 11 extra-pulmonary and 17 mixed. The response to treatment was good.