[A cursed duo: HIV infection and tuberculosis].
Tuberculosis remains a health problem of extraordinary magnitude, especially in developing countries. Unfortunately, many of the same countries have the additional burden of a remarkably high prevalence of HIV infection. Because of the inherent capacity of tubercle bacilli to take advantage of deficiencies in cell-mediated immunity, tuberculosis has become an extremely important infectious complication of HIV disease in those developing countries in which the two infections coexist; the same is true, although to a lesser extent, in developed countries among those groups of patients with HIV infection, in which there is also a high prevalence of remotely acquired tuberculosis.
University of California, San Francisco 94143-0841.
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D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003906:Developing Countries; D005544:Forecasting; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence; D015497:HIV-1; D015994:Incidence; D009656:North America / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013020:South America / Q000453:epidemiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy
Un duo maudit: infection à vih et tuberculose.