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AIDS and tuberculosis
M M Morales Suárez-Valera1, A Llopis González, M L Ballester Calabuig
1Unidad de Salud Publica, Higiene y Sanidad Ambiental, Burjasot Valencia, Spain.
European Journal of Epidemiology
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
Between 1985-1989 were diagnosed 376 cases of TBC in "La Fe" hospital in Valencia. 36 of this cases also had AIDS. We have carried out a compared study among the 340 cases of TBC and the 36 cases of AIDS+TBC. In this way we have described the social and work conditions of both groups, the hospitalization, the associated pathologies, the different risk factors, the different characteristics of the disease in each group of TBC, the diagnoses methods and the treatment of each case.