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Prevalence and determinants of Tuberculosis among HIV infected patients in south Ethiopia

Author(s) -

Sintayehu Fekadu,

Wondu Teshome,

Getnet Alemu

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.5667

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , epidemiology , odds ratio , disease , logistic regression , medical record , retrospective cohort study , immunology , pathology

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease that has represented a major health problem over the centuries. The human immune deficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS has substantially altered the epidemiology of TB by increasing the risk of reactivating latent TB, increasing chance of TB infection once exposed to tubercle bacilli (re-infection) and by increasing the risk of rapid progression soon after infection.

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