HIV-infection morbidity rates continue to increase in Moscow, the Moscow Region, and in the whole country. The epidemiological situation associated with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection remains tense in Moscow and its region, as judged from the data of an analysis of this disease at tuberculosis hospital seven (TH-7) over 9 years. A total of 411 patients with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection were treated at TH-7 in 1996 to December 2004.
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December 2005
Aim: To analyse social, clinical, x-ray and immunological features of tuberculosis (TB) in 117 patients from the Moscow region with concurrent HIV-infection.
Material And Methods: The patients were divided into 3 groups depending on the time of TB and HIV-infection detection in relation to each other. Group 1 patients (20.