Tuberculosis-HIV co-infection in Kiev City, Ukraine.

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Chechulin, Yuriy; Chentsova, Nelly; Hasker, Epco; Petrenko, Vasyl I.; Turchenko, Leonid V.; van der Werf, Marieke J.; Veen, Jaap; Yegorova, Olga B. | Copyright information

In 2004, we tested all patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) for HIV in Kiev City. The results were compared to information from medical records of 2002, when co-infection prevalence was 6.3%. Of 968 TB patients, 98 (10.1%) were H IV infected. TB-H IV co-infection is increasing, especially in injecting drug users.

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In Ukraine, the prevalence of HIV infection has been increasing since the mid-1990s (1,2). By January 2005, a total of 74,856 c...

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