Open AccessPartial Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in an HIV-Infected Child
Author(s) -
Ramya Uppuluri,
Ira Shah
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the international association of providers of aids care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2325-9582
pISSN - 2325-9574
DOI - 10.1177/2325957413516384
Subject(s) - coinfection , tuberculosis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , drug resistance , drug , disease , mycobacterium tuberculosis , antiretroviral drug , virology , immunology , pediatrics , antiretroviral therapy , biology , pharmacology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , viral load
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common opportunistic infections that affects patients with HIV. HIV and TB coinfection have a synergistic effect on each other, with one disease worsening the effects and treatment of the other. In the recent past, varying levels of drug resistance are also found in patients coinfected with HIV and TB, but rarely is it reported in children in India. The present case documents partial extensively drug-resistant TB in an 8-year-old child.