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Quantitative Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection on Tuberculosis Dynamics
9 Aug 2007
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RATIONALE: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has a major but unquantified impact on the risk of tuberculosis. OBJECTIVES: To quantify the impact of HIV infection on the number of tuberculosis cases in San Francisco. METHODS: We studied all patients reported with tuberculosis in San Francisco from 1991 to 2002. The initial isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were genotyped using IS6110 restriction...
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