RESUMO

Tuberculosis remains a health problem of extraordinary magnitude, especially in developing countries. Unfortunately, many of the same countries have the additional burden of a remarkably high prevalence of HIV infection. Because of the inherent capacity of tubercle bacilli to take advantage of deficiencies in cell-mediated immunity, tuberculosis has become an extremely important infectious complication of HIV disease in those developing countries in which the two infections coexist; the same is true, although to a lesser extent, in developed countries among those groups of patients with HIV infection, in which there is also a high prevalence of remotely acquired tuberculosis.

Assuntos

Infecções por HIV , HIV-1 , Tuberculose , África/epidemiologia , Protocolos Clínicos , Países em Desenvolvimento , Previsões , Infecções por HIV/complicações , Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia , Infecções por HIV/terapia , Soroprevalência de HIV , Incidência , América do Norte/epidemiologia , Prognóstico , Fatores de Risco , América do Sul/epidemiologia , Tuberculose/complicações , Tuberculose/epidemiologia , Tuberculose/terapia

Assuntos

Hanseníase