Empirical treatment for TB in HIV
Lessons from a cohort study of people living with HIV treated in Recife, Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15378293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Fátima de Pessoa Militão Albuquerque (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, corresponding author), Isabella Coimbra (Universidade de Pernambuco), Joanna D’arc Lyra Batista (0000-0002-3703-2845, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Joanna d’Arc Batista, Magda Maruza (0000-0002-3326-8885), Ricardo A A XIMENES (Universidade de Pernambuco), Heloísa Ramos Lacerda (0000-0001-9872-7571, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Demócrito Barros Miranda-Filho (Universidade de Pernambuco), Marcela Lopes Santos (0000-0002-1283-7962, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Laura Cunha Rodrigues (0000-0001-9008-660X, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 289-289 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMC Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-289 |
| PMID | 24679187 |
| PMCID | PMC4020612 |
| OpenAlex | W2089391019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Higher mortality in PLHIV reporting a current cough without bacteriological confirmation of tuberculosis was identified for those with a CD4 cell count <200, abnormal chest X-ray, anemia and empirical treatment for tuberculosis. Mortality was not significantly higher in those empirically treated for TB, who had three characteristics suggestive of the disease (abnormal chest X-ray, history of TB treatment, AFB sputum smear or M.tb culture testing). Routine cohorts are not an adequate setting to evaluate the impact of empirical treatment for TB on the mortality of PLHIV
Biostatistics · Cohort · Cohort study · Environmental health · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Pathology · Public health · Tb treatment · Tuberculosis · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment · Epidemiology · Gerontology · Internal Medicine
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |