AIDS-related tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Pacheco, Antonio G ^a   Durovni, Betina ^c,d   Cavalcante, Solange C ^b,c   Lauria, L M ^c   Moore, Richard D ^e,f   Moulton, Lawrence H ^e   Chaisson, Richard E ^e,f   Golub, Jonathan E ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^c Municipal Health Secretariat   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONCURRENT INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; VIROLOGY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 52649130343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003132     Document Type: Article

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