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Implementation of tuberculosis intensive case finding, isoniazid preventive therapy, and infection control ("Three I's") and HIV-tuberculosis service integration in lower income countries
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
Setting: World Health Organization advocates for integration of HIV-tuberculosis (TB) services and recommends intensive case finding (ICF), isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), and infection control ("Three I's") for TB ...
Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and AIDS: case report
(Oxford University Press, 1993)
In Perd tegumentary leishmaniases are endemic, more than 5000 new cases per year being reported by the Ministry of Health, although the estimated real incidence is three times as great, and human immunodeficiency virus ...
Time to HAART initiation after diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS in Latin America
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
Background: Since 2009, earlier initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) after an opportunistic infection (OI) has been recommended based on lower risks of death and AIDS-related progression found in ...
Clinical management of concurrent diabetes and tuberculosis and the implications for patient services
(Elsevier, 2014)
Diabetes triples the risk for active tuberculosis, thus the increasing burden of type 2 diabetes will help to sustain the present tuberculosis epidemic. Recommendations have been made for bidirectional screening, but ...
Images in clinical tropical medicine: Bacillary angiomatosis
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014)
A 29-year-old man presented with generalized, painless, erythematous lesions and fever. The patient had recently been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. His CD4 T-cell count at presentation was ...
Probable Syphilitic Aortitis Documented by Positron Emission Tomography
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)
Positron emission tomography (PET) has been used to aid in diagnosis of inflammatory and infectious disease. We describe the case of a patient with early latent syphilis with increased metabolic activity along the aorta ...
Correlation of susceptibility of Cryptococcus neoformans to amphotericin B with clinical outcome
(American Society for Microbiology, 2011)
Testing of Cryptococcus neoformans for susceptibility to antifungal drugs by standard microtiter methods has not been shown to correlate with clinical outcomes. This report describes a modified quantitative broth macrodilution ...
Factors associated with early mycological clearance in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Introduction: The first-line combination therapy for HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis (CM), a condition of high mortality particularly in the first two weeks of treatment, consists of amphotericin B plus flucytosine ...