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Need to Fight TB with Multiple Weapons
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: March 12, 2012
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
SEATTLE -- Two large studies in Africa illustrate the difficulty of getting a handle on the continent's raging tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, researchers said here...
...Primary source: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Source reference:
Ayles H, et al "A household-based HIV and TB intervention increases HIV testing in households and reduces prevalence of TB at the community level: the ZAMSTAR community randomized trial" CROI 2012; Abstract 149bLB.
Additional source: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Source reference:
Churchyard G, et al "Community-wide isoniazid preventive therapy does not improve TB control among gold miners: the thibela TB study, South Africa" CROI 2012; Abstract 150aLB.
Need to Fight TB with Multiple Weapons
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: March 12, 2012
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
SEATTLE -- Two large studies in Africa illustrate the difficulty of getting a handle on the continent's raging tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, researchers said here...
...Primary source: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Source reference:
Ayles H, et al "A household-based HIV and TB intervention increases HIV testing in households and reduces prevalence of TB at the community level: the ZAMSTAR community randomized trial" CROI 2012; Abstract 149bLB.
Additional source: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Source reference:
Churchyard G, et al "Community-wide isoniazid preventive therapy does not improve TB control among gold miners: the thibela TB study, South Africa" CROI 2012; Abstract 150aLB.