Advanced immune suppression is associated with increased prevalence of mixed-strain mycobacterium tuberculosis infections among persons at high risk for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Botswana

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 347-351

  Shin, Sanghyuk S ^a   Modongo, Chawangwa ^b   Ncube, Ronald ^c   Sepako, Enoch ^d   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^a   Zetola, Nicola M ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOTSWANA UPENN PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^c Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV AIDS; immune suppression; mixed tuberculosis infection; reinfection; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT HISTORY OF THERAPY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COINFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; RISK; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

ADULT; BOTSWANA; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84922513764     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu421     Document Type: Article

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