Tuberculosis co-morbidity and perceptions about health care among HIV-infected plasma donors in rural China.
Limited community-based data exist about pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) comorbidity among HIV-infected individuals in China and no data exists about the TB burden in key high risk groups. We recruited 195 known HIV-infected plasma donors in one central China county and identified 9 (4.6%) active TB cases based on clinical assessment, including chest radiography. The low percentage of TB may be explained by improved immunity due to antiretroviral therapy.
Qian
Han-Zhu
HZ
Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. han-zhu.qian@vanderbilt.edu
Li
Qingchun
Q
Yao
Hongyan
H
Ruan
Yuhua
Y
Kristensen
Sibylle
S
Schumacher
Joseph E
JE
Pan
Stephen W
SW
Shao
Yiming
Y
Kimerling
Michael E
ME