Pulmonary tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS attending care and treatment in rural northern Tanzania
Open Access
- 30 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1), 341
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-341
Abstract
Tuberculosis is the commonest opportunistic infection and the number one cause of death in HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries. To address the extent of the tuberculosis HIV coinfection in rural Tanzania we conducted a cross sectional study including HIV/AIDS patients attending care and treatment clinic from September 2006 to March 2007.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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