Transmission of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection
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Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from tuberculosis patients with HIV infection or AIDS.
Contacts exposed to tuberculosis patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection were compared with contacts of HIV-negative patients for evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission, based on a review of records of tuberculin skin tests administered during routine health department follow-up investigations in Miami/Dade County, Flo...
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TO THE EDITOR—The study by Middelkoop and colleagues [1] combining molecular and traditional epidemiology in a well-defined population is incredibly valuable. We were surprised that the index tuberculosis case patients in clusters had only twice the odds of being negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), compared with other tuberculosis case patients. In the 1990s, there was little chang...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6976.401