Tuberculosis infection in HIV vs. non-HIV patients.

Inês Rego de FigueiredoJ Branco FerrãoS DiasR Vieira AlvesD Drummond BorgesM TorresS Guerreiro CastroF LourençoA M AntunesH GrunerA Panarra

Published in: HIV medicine (2021)

There are few papers comparing clinical course of TB between HIV-infected and non-infected patients. Our study differs from others in the literature as we focused on a country with middling incidence of TB and further characterized the differences between HIV-infected and non-infected patients which can contribute to the management of these patients.

Keyphrases

hiv infected
antiretroviral therapy
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
mycobacterium tuberculosis
chronic kidney disease
hiv aids
hiv positive
prognostic factors