An old scourge returns
Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 6 months ago
The fight against the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic will play a critical role in the battle against HIV/AIDS, health officials and experts say. TB, an age-old contagious disease, is now the leading cause of death among people infected with HIV in Africa and Asia. "Once a person who is HIV positive is infected with TB, he will die within three weeks without treatment," says Dr Jerald C Sadoff at the 5th IAS (International AIDS Society) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa Read source article...
Keywords: drug resistance extensively drug-resistant IAS 2009 M/XDR-TB MDR-TB multi-drug resistant TB tuberculosis XDR-TB
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