Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in aids patients at the beginning of the millennium;Tuberculosis multirresistente en pacientes con sida a comienzos del milenio

Medicina

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 399-404

  Palmero, Domingo ^a,c   Ritacco, Viviana ^b   Ambroggi, Marta ^a   Poggi, Susana ^a   Gurtubay, Jose Güemes ^a   Alberti, Federico ^a   Waisman, Jaime ^a  

^a HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^b Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aids; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Nosocomial outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ILLICIT DRUG; KANAMYCIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENOTYPE; HELPER CELL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRISONER; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ARGENTINA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT ISOLATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 33750971119     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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