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AIDS pacient's long-term battle with multiply recurrent tuberculosis: reinfection or reactivation?
Revista Argentina de microbiologia - 1 Jan 2000
Reniero A, Beltrán M, de Kantor I N, Ritacco V
Abstract excerpt
The advent of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain genotyping has allowed differentiation between disease relapse and exogenous re-infection. We report here a remarkable case of multiply recurrent tuberculosis in a patient living with HIV. Between 1995 and 2009, a young HIV-infected intravenous drug user, who was reluctant to comply with anti-retroviral treatment, underwent at least five tuberculosis episodes caused...
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