Trials of Tuberculosis-Preventive Therapy in People with HIV Infection
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Preventive treatment for tuberculosis in people with HIV.
Research on prevention of tuberculosis in people with HIV is an active specialty, with varying and often contradictory results from clinical trials. A systematic review of ten trials showed that treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in people with HIV not on antiretroviral treatment lowered the risk of tuberculosis by a weighted average of 62% in people who had a positive tuberculin skin t...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1073-449X,1535-4970
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202003-0761le