HIV and parasitic co-infections in tuberculosis patients: A cross-sectional study in Mwanza, Tanzania

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-351

  Range, N ^a   Magnussen, P ^b   Mugomela, A ^c   Malenganisho, W ^d   Changalucha, J ^d   Temu, M M ^d   Mngara, J ^d   Krarup, H ^e   Friis, H ^f   Andersen, A B ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c Bugando Medical Centre   (Tanzania)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^e AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 34748819355     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485907X176373     Document Type: Article

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