نتایج جستجو برای: tb and hiv

تعداد نتایج: 16883277  

Journal: :Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2012
C Feldacker H Tweya O Keiser R Weigel M Kalulu L Fenner M Egger E Manda J B Mwafilaso C Kamba S Phiri

OBJECTIVES To describe initial registration characteristics of adult and paediatric TB patients at a large, public, integrated TB and HIV clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, between January 2008 and December 2010. METHODS Routine data on patient with TB category and TB type, stratified by HIV and ART status, were used to explore differences in proportions among TB only, TB/HIV co-infected patients no...

Introduction: Nowadays, despite socio-economic development of communities and controlling majority of communicable diseases, tuberculosis is still one of the main causes of mortality and disability in developing countries. With respect to importance and high incidence of tuberculosis in marginal provinces, the present study aimed to assess the epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Khuzestan provinc...

Journal: :Emerging Infectious Diseases 2009
Kevin P. Cain Thanomsak Anekthananon Channawong Burapat Somsak Akksilp Wiroj Mankhatitham Chawin Srinak Sriprapa Nateniyom Wanchai Sattayawuthipong Theerawit Tasaneeyapan Jay K. Varma

Up to 50% of persons with HIV and a diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in Thailand die during TB treatment. In a prospective observational study, a team of physicians ascribed the cause of death after reviewing verbal autopsies (interviews of family members about events preceding death), laboratory data, and medical records. Of 849 HIV-infected TB patients enrolled, 142 (17%) died. The cause of dea...

2003
Denise do Socorro S. Rodrigues Rosangela M. de C. Cunha Georges Kallas Reinaldo Salomao

CD 4 + and CD 8 + T lymphocyte counts, naive and memory/effector CD 4 + T subpopulations, and the expression of CD 38 on CD 8 + T lymphocytes were evaluated in four groups: AIDS patients with tuberculosis (HIV/TB, n=14), HIV-1 infected patients (HIV, n=10), HIV-1 negative patients with tuberculosis (TB, n=20) and healthy controls (CTL, n=17). TB and HIV had fewer CD 4 + T cells than CTL, with t...

2012
Kudakwashe C Takarinda Anthony D Harries Satyanarayana Srinath Tsitsi Mutasa-Apollo Charles Sandy Owen Mugurungi

BACKGROUND Zimbabwe is a Southern African country with a high HIV-TB burden and is ranked 19th among the 22 Tuberculosis high burden countries worldwide. Recurrent TB is an important problem for TB control, yet there is limited information about treatment outcomes in relation to HIV status. This study was therefore conducted in Chitungwiza, a high density dormitory town outside the capital city...

2008
Jeremiah Chakaya Haileyesus Getahun Reuben Granich Diane Havlir

HIV associated TB is a major public health problem. In 2006, it was estimated that there were over 700,000 people who suffered from HIV associated TB, of whom about 200, 000 have died. The burden of HIV associated TB is greatest in Sub-Saharan Africa where the TB epidemic is primarily driven by HIV. There has been steady progress made in reducing the burden of HIV in TB patients with an increas...

Journal: :African journal of AIDS research : AJAR 2013
Christo Heunis Edwin Wouters Gladys Kigozi Ega Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen Nandipha Jacobs

With its emphasis on task shifting and multi-trained and skilled outreach teams the primary healthcare (PHC) re-engineering strategy in South Africa depends on the training, knowledge and attitudes of community health workers (CHWs) to provide a variety of TB/HIV services. The aim of this exploratory research was to assess TB/ HIV-related training, knowledge and attitudes of CHWs. Interviews we...

2013
Ronald Benjamin Atoshi Banerjee Sharada Ramaseri Sunder Sumanlatha Gaddam Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri Sharmistha Banerjee

BACKGROUND Cytokines are the hallmark of immune response to different pathogens and often dictate the disease outcome. HIV infection and tuberculosis (TB) are more destructive when confronted together than either alone. Clinical data related to the immune status of HIV-TB patients before the initiation of any drug therapy is not well documented. This study aimed to collect the baseline informat...

2014
Thiago Nascimento do Prado Angélica Espinosa Miranda Fernanda Mattos de Souza Elias dos Santos Dias Lorena Kellen Fernandes Sousa Denise Arakaki-Sanchez Mauro N Sanchez Jonathan E Golub Ethel Leonor Maciel

BACKGROUND Over the last decade tuberculosis (TB) incidence and mortality in Brazil have been steadily declining. However, this downward trend has not been observed among HIV-infected patients. We describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of TB patients by HIV status using the Brazilian National Surveillance System. METHODS All TB diagnoses with HIV status information between January ...

Journal: :International Journal of Tropical Disease & Health 2023

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common and deadly infectious diseases in humans. Due to widespread poverty, inequity, conflict, suboptimal health services many countries, impact HIV/AIDS pandemic, TB/HIV co-infected patients frequently test negative for TB with direct microscopy, posing diagnostic challenges. Traditional HIV-associated diagnosis complex, expensive, time-consumi...

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