Open AccessIncidence of tuberculosis and immunological profile of TB/HIV co-infected patients in Nigeria
Author(s) -
Baba Maiyaki Musa,
Musa Babashani,
Hamza Muhammed,
Normala Ibrahim,
Musa A. Garbati
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.160838
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , tuberculosis , regimen , cohort , gee , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cohort study , generalized estimating equation , pediatrics , immunology , pathology , statistics , physics , mathematics , optics
We obtained estimates of the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among patients receiving HIV Treatment. We also modeled the relationship between incident TB and change in CD4 count over the follow-up period.