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LOZANO SALAZAR, Jorge Luis; PLASENCIA ASOREY, Carolina; COSTA MONTANE, Daniel Marino  and  PUENTE SANI, Ventura. Co-infection due to tuberculosis and human inmunodeficiency virus: confluence of two epidemics. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.9, pp. 1438-1450. ISSN 1029-3019.

Several literature sources on the epidemiology of tuberculosis and the human inmunodeficiency virus and the co-infection of both diseases in the world were reviewed. Also, the relationship between these disease processes was analyzed and the global strategy of prevention to reduce the load of the two epidemics was kept in mind.

Keywords : tuberculosis; human inmunodeficiency; virus, co-infection; epidemiology.

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