Document 0120
 DOCN  M9650120
 TI    Effect of pregnancy on the risk of developing active tuberculosis.
 DT    9605
 AU    Espinal MA; Reingold AL; Lavandera M; Division of Public Health Biology
       and Epidemiology, School of; Public Health, University of California,
       Berkeley 94720-7360,; USA.
 SO    J Infect Dis. 1996 Feb;173(2):488-91. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96162116
 AB    In a case-control study, the effect of recent pregnancy on the risk of
       developing active tuberculosis among women of reproductive age was
       investigated in Santo Domingo. Human immunodeficiency virus
       (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative women diagnosed with new-onset
       tuberculosis (TB) were compared, respectively, with HIV-positive and
       HIV-negative women without TB with regard to reproductive history,
       demographic characteristics, and risk factors for HIV infection. In
       neither HIV-positive nor HIV-negative women was recent pregnancy or
       childbirth associated with an increased risk of developing active TB.
       These results fail to confirm earlier suggestions that pregnancy
       increases the risk that a woman of child-bearing age infected with
       Mycobacterium tuberculosis will develop active TB.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Case-Control Studies  Comparative Study  Dominican
       Republic/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay  Female  Human
       HIV Antibodies/ANALYSIS  *HIV Seronegativity  HIV
       Seropositivity/*COMPLICATIONS  *HIV-1/IMMUNOLOGY  Pregnancy  Pregnancy
       Complications, Infectious/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  Risk Factors  Support, U.S.
       Gov't, P.H.S.  Tuberculin Test  Tuberculosis,
       Pulmonary/COMPLICATIONS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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