HIV-TB the deadly duo, the biggest health challenge in Fiji
| Autor: | Santhakumari Muller, Vinod Narayan Sami |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Veterinary medicine Tuberculosis Opportunistic infection business.industry Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Disease medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Medical microbiology Infectious Diseases Environmental health medicine Hiv patients Oral Presentation lcsh:RC109-216 business Co infection |
| Zdroj: | BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss Suppl 1, p O22 (2012) BMC Infectious Diseases |
| ISSN: | 1471-2334 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2334-12-s1-o22 |
| Popis: | Background Tuberculosis is a common opportunistic infection and HIV patients with latent TB infection are at risk of reactivation and those with recently acquired infection are at high risk of progressive primary TB. Approximately 1000 people in the western pacific region die from the disease every day. The threat of increasing HIV rates fuelling the TB epidemic has become an important massive challenge in Fiji to the control of TB at all levels. Hence this study was to evaluate the rate of TB co infection among HIV patients in Fiji. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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