Duration of anti-tuberculosis therapy and timing of antiretroviral therapy initiation: association with mortality in HIV-related tuberculosis.

Duration of anti-tuberculosis therapy and timing of antiretroviral therapy initiation: association with mortality in HIV-related tuberculosis.

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) decreases mortality risk in HIV-infected tuberculosis patients, but the effect of the duration of anti-tuberculosis therapy and timing of anti-tuberculosis therapy initiation in relation to ART initiation on mortality, is unclear.We conducted a retrospective observationa...

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Main Authors: Claudia P Cortes, Firas H Wehbe, Catherine C McGowan, Bryan E Shepherd, Stephany N Duda, Cathy A Jenkins, Elsa Gonzalez, Gabriela Carriquiry, Mauro Schechter, Denis Padgett, Carina Cesar, Juan Sierra Madero, Jean W Pape, Daniel R Masys, Timothy R Sterling, Caribbean, Central American, South American Network for HIV Research of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3774609?pdf=render

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