Impact of HIV on mortality among patients treated for tuberculosis in Lima, Peru: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated tuberculosis deaths have decreased worldwide over the past decade. We sought to evaluate the effect of HIV status on tuberculosis mortality among patients undergoing treatment for tuberculosis in Lima, Peru, a low HIV prevalence setting. METH...

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Autores principales: Velásquez, Gustavo E., Cegielski, J. Peter, Murray, Megan B., Yagui, Martin J. A., Asencios, Luis L., Bayona, Jaime N., Bonilla, César A., Jave, Hector O., Yale, Gloria, Suárez, Carmen Z., Sanchez, Eduardo, Rojas, Christian, Atwood, Sidney S., Contreras, Carmen C., Cruz, Janeth Santa, Shin, Sonya S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26831140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1375-8