Pulmonary tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS attending care and treatment in rural northern Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ngowi, Bernard J ^a,b,e   Mfinanga, Sayoki G ^b   Bruun, Johan N ^c,d   Morkve, Odd ^e,f  

^a HAYDOM LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SPUTUM; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SPUTUM; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 53849131356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-341     Document Type: Article

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