Enteroparasitosis prevalence and parasitism influence in clinical outcomes of tuberculosis patients with or without HIV co-infection in a reference hospital in Rio de Janeiro (2000-2006)

Tuberculosis and intestinal parasites affect primarily low social and economic level populations, living clustered in precarious habitational settings. One of the interesting aspects of this interaction is the parasitism influence in cellular response to tuberculosis. In the present study, we evalua...

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Main Authors: Luanda M.S. Neto, Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira, Paulo Renato Totino, Flavia Marinho Sant'Anna, Viviane de Oliveira Coelho, Valeria Cavalcanti Rolla, Graziela M. Zanini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702009000600008&lng=en&tlng=en