Prevalent and Incident Tuberculosis Are Independent Risk Factors for Mortality among Patients Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Patients with prevalent or incident tuberculosis (TB) in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan Africa have high mortality risk. However, published data are contradictory as to whether TB is a risk factor for mortality that is independent of CD4 cell counts and other pa...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Ankur, Wood, Robin, Kaplan, Richard, Bekker, Linda-Gail, Lawn, Stephen D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3572168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055824

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3572168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055824

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