Document 2299
 DOCN  M94A2299
 TI    Coinfection in tuberculosis/AIDS--descriptive analyses of cases in
       university hospital--Brazil 1988/1992.
 DT    9412
 AU    Patrocolo MA
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):336 (abstract no. PC0280). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370276
 AB    Data referring to all the cases of Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis/AIDS
       coinfection known to the institution was collected from the
       notifications registered in the Epidemiological Surveillance System in
       HUCFF-UFRJ, in the period of 1988 to 1992. This analyses showed that
       41.3% of the cases initially diagnosed as tuberculosis present
       coinfection, with a significant raise in the cases of extra-pulmonary
       forms. Since 1990, there's been remarkable decline in the increase rate
       of the disseminated form. Concerning the total number of cases of all
       clinical forms of coinfection, in 1992, it occurred predominantly in the
       male sex and in the ages between 30 and 39 years. In the period of 1988
       to 1992, the relative proportional variation of the lethality rate of
       the cases, showed a decline of 233% in the severs forms (miliary,
       meningitis, disseminated); and of 34.5% in the pulmonary form of
       coinfection cases. This hospital is distinguished as a reference center
       for the treatment of tuberculosis/AIDS coinfection, having achieved
       relevant results in the treatment of the severe forms of tuberculosis.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/MORTALITY  Adult
       AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/MORTALITY
       Brazil/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Comorbidity  *Developing Countries  Female
       Hospital Mortality  Hospitals, University  Human  HIV Seroprevalence
       Male  *Population Surveillance  Tuberculosis/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/MORTALITY
       Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/MORTALITY  MEETING ABSTRACT

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