[Clinical and immunological features of concomitant HIV/tuberculosis infection and HIV infection without tuberculosis].

The clinical and hematological manifestations and functional state of the immune system were comparatively evaluated in patients with concomitant HIV/tuberculosis (TB) infection (n = 84) and in those with HIV infection without tuberculosis (n = 106). The course of concomitant HIV-TB infection was ascertained to differ from HIV monoinfection in a diversity of additional exposures that aggravated the patients' general condition. These included: the parameters of a long proceeding inflammatory process, which were accompanied by the signs of the infection-toxic syndrome, inflammatory changes in the hemogram, by a sharp stimulation of the nonspecific link of immunity.

[Clinical and immunological features of the course of tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection].

The clinical and immunological features of the course of tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection were studied in 109 patients. Thirty-eight patients were found to have active tuberculosis to HIV infection; 22 patients were diagnosed to have HIV infection and tuberculosis, and 49 patients developed tuberculosis in the presence of HIV infection. The most acute course of the disease with severe infection-toxic and asthenovegetative syndromes was observed in patients with simultaneous detection of HIV infection and tuberculosis, and, when tuberculosis joins as a secondary disease in the presence of HIV infection, the bronchopulmonary syndrome, body weight loss, lymphoadenopathy, and skin lesion were pronounced at most.