Introduction: Intravenous drug users as a serious health problem in communities have economical and social effects as well as health and hygienic complications. Viral infections may be transmitted through drug injection by shared syringes among users. The aim of this study has been to determine the relative frequency of HBV, HCV and HIV infection’s markers as epidemiological data in Ahvaz. Ma...

disseminated tuberculosis (tb) is commonly seen in hiv-infected patients and is major cause of death in these patients. in hiv-infected patients disseminated tuberculosis is frequently undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. in this article we report a case of disseminated tb in a hiv-infected patient with a relatively long history of fever and other complaints without definite diagnosis. diagnosis of dis...

persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) are particularly susceptible to tuberculosis, either by latent infection reactivation or by a primary infection with rapid progression to active disease. this study was done to determine the frequency of tuberculosis infection among iranian patients with hiv/aids. a total of 262 hiv/aids patients attending all three hiv/aids health ca...

Abstract Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is the most fatal adult in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There no conclusive evidence for superiority of 1-week amphotericin B deoxycholate (AmphB) + flucytosine (5-FC) regimen over other antifungals management HIV CM (HIV–CM patients). We aimed to evaluate differences efficacy and tolerability different antifungal agents HIV–CM by condu...

evidence has shown that liver disease caused by hepatitis viruses can be more aggressive and severe in hiv infected subjects. therefore, the present cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence of hdv infection among hiv/hbv co-infected clients in shiraz, southwest iran. in this study, 178 patients co-infected with hbv and hiv individuals were enrolled. the diagnosis of hiv infect...

Background: Although regular frequent blood transfusion improves overall survival of multi-transfused patients like β-thalassemic ones, it carries a definite risk of infection with blood-borne viruses such as viral hepatitis. This study was done to determine seropositivity of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and Human Immunedeficiency Virus (HIV) infections among β-th...

Purpose: This study was conduct with an objective to compare between the knowledge and attitude of private public universities’ dental students regarding HIV, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
 Methodology: An online questionnaire used collect data from universities. Questionnaire pre-coded included closed ended questions. Data analyzed by IBS SPSS version 21. Descriptive statistics such as frequencie...

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency (HIV) confection has been reported to impair negatively on the health of patients because it impacts directly outcome HBV infection, considerably complicating its natural history, diagnosis management. This study was aimed at determining incidence distribution HBV/HIV coinfection in area. Methods: The sera people living with HIV/AID...