A bundle of services increased ascertainment of tuberculosis among HIV-infected individuals enrolled in a HIV cohort in rural sub-Saharan Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Haraka, Frederick ^a   Glass, Tracy R ^b,c   Sikalengo, George ^a   Gamell, Anna ^a,b   Ntamatungiro, Alex ^a   Hatz, Christoph ^b   Tanner, Marcel ^b   Furrer, Hansjakob ^d   Battegay, Manuel ^c,e   Letang, Emilio ^a,b,f  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; COINFECTION; COMMUNITY CARE; HIV INFECTIONS; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ADULT; COINFECTION; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84928156075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123275     Document Type: Article

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