Abstract

SOLLE CASTELLANOS, Miriam Virgen  and  CIRIA MUNOZ, Nereida. Pesquisaje de tuberculosis pulmonar en pacientes con VIH/SIDA. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.2, pp. 96-100. ISSN 1561-2961.

A cross-sectional and descriptive study of 23 HIV/AIDS patients hospitalized in «El Caguayo» sanatorium, in the municipality of San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, during the first semester of 1997, was conducted aimed at making a screening of pulmonary tuberculosis. The most affected ages ranged between l5 and 34, with predominance of the male sex. The most frequent symptoms were: cough, expectoration and febricula. No case with the afore mentioned affection was diagnosed; however, chemoprophylactic treatment with isionazide was applied to the whole sample.

Keywords : TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY [etiology]; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY [epidemiology]; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [epidemiology]; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [nursing]; HIV; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS [pathogenecity].

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