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Tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

Rapose, Alwyn
Karande, S.
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Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to remain a major health problem in India in spite of achieving nationwide coverage with directly observed therapy since 2006. The estimated incidence of 2.2 million TB cases and a prevalence of 2.5 million in the year 2015 make India the country with the highest burden of TB in the world. In addition, it is estimated that a substantial part of the healthy population (up to 40%) has latent (inactive) TB. India had estimated 2.1 million people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the year 2015...HIV and TB coinfection creates a perfect storm in terms of poor outcomes secondary to the multiple challenges in the management of these two infections.

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J Postgrad Med. 2017 Oct-Dec;63(4):207-209. doi: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_365_17. Link to article on publisher's site

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10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_365_17
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Copyright : © 2017 Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.