TY - JOUR
T1 - HIV-testing study of immigrants with pulmonary tuberculosis
AU - Bonington, Alec
AU - Harden, Susan
AU - Anderson, Sarah
AU - Wall, Robert
AU - Davidson, Robert N.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - The increasing prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency, virus (HIV), particularly in Africa and Asia, led us to investigate the prevalence of HIV infection in immigrants with pulmonary TB at the time of arrival in the UK. We performed anonymous HIV testing of stored sera from 39/65 immigrants referred to our unit between January 1991 and December 1994, who had culture-positive pulmonary TB. None of the 39 patients tested was positive for either HIV-1 or HIV-2, and the characterisitics of the 26 patients for whom no serum was available were similar to those of the tested group. Despite the need to consider concomitant HIV infection in any patient with TB, particularly those from an area of HIV endemnicity, the present data do not suggest that recently arrived refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants or long-term visitors to the UK constitute a group in whom dual infection of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis is common.
AB - The increasing prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency, virus (HIV), particularly in Africa and Asia, led us to investigate the prevalence of HIV infection in immigrants with pulmonary TB at the time of arrival in the UK. We performed anonymous HIV testing of stored sera from 39/65 immigrants referred to our unit between January 1991 and December 1994, who had culture-positive pulmonary TB. None of the 39 patients tested was positive for either HIV-1 or HIV-2, and the characterisitics of the 26 patients for whom no serum was available were similar to those of the tested group. Despite the need to consider concomitant HIV infection in any patient with TB, particularly those from an area of HIV endemnicity, the present data do not suggest that recently arrived refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants or long-term visitors to the UK constitute a group in whom dual infection of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis is common.
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U2 - 10.3109/00365549709011854
DO - 10.3109/00365549709011854
M3 - Article
C2 - 9435032
AN - SCOPUS:0030724494
SN - 0036-5548
VL - 29
SP - 461
EP - 463
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
IS - 5
ER -