1. Prevalence of Tuberculosis among HIV Patients in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Alturkistani, Ela Lutfallah, Alayyafi, Wed Ahmed M., Alnafisah, Haya Abdulrahman, Khan, Abdullah Hussain, Alwaheed, Areej Abdulaziz, Alzein, Esra Hassan, Sharton, Amal Mohamed, Qaq, Waseem Morshed, Muzaffar, Ibrahim Hussain, Al Dawood, Ahmed Mohammed, Felemban, Essam Abdulkhalig, and Ojaimi, Mohammed Hisham
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TUBERCULOSIS , *HIV-positive persons , *DISEASE prevalence , *ONCOLOGY - Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is the commonest infection that has been reported in HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries. This cross sectional study has been conducted in the chest clinic, King Abdulaziz Hospital and Oncology Center to evaluate the prevalence of TB among these patients in Saudi Arabia. Methods: across sectional survey has been conducted in the City of Jeddah, Chest Department, King Abdul-Aziz Hospital and Oncology Center of total 172 HIV positive patients. Conclusion: we have found that the majority of HIV/AIDS patients had tuberculosis and the rest of them had a high susceptibility to get it. Radiograph has also TB findings. TB can occur at any stage of CD4+T cells depletion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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