1. A Retrospective Study of Culture-confirmed Mycobacterial Infection among Hospitalized HIV-infected Patients in Beijing, China.
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Zhao XY, Zeng ZY, Hua WH, Yu YH, Guo CP, Zhao XQ, Dong HY, Liu J, and Wan KL
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- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections epidemiology, Adult, Beijing, Coinfection, Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis epidemiology, Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis microbiology, Female, HIV Infections epidemiology, Hospitals, Urban, Humans, Male, Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous epidemiology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolation & purification, Nontuberculous Mycobacteria isolation & purification, Prevalence, Retrospective Studies, Sputum microbiology, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant epidemiology, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary epidemiology, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections microbiology, HIV Infections microbiology, Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous microbiology, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant microbiology, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary microbiology
- Abstract
A retrospective analysis was performed in two major HIV/AIDS referral hospitals in Beijing to evaluate the prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections in HIV-infected patients. A total of 627 patients' data were reviewed, and 102 (16.3%) patients were diagnosed with culture-confirmed mycobacterial infection, including 84 with MTB, 16 with NTM, and 2 with both MTB and NTM. The most frequent clinical complication by mycobacterial infection was pulmonary infection (48/102, 47.1%). The overall rates of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) were 11.9% and 3.4%, respectively. This study underlines the urgent need to intensify screening for mycobacteria coinfection with HIV and to prevent the spread of drug-resistant TB among HIV-infected patients., (Copyright © 2018 The Editorial Board of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences. Published by China CDC. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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