TY - JOUR
T1 - Tuberculosis and HIV infection
T2 - How to safely treat both disorders concurrently
AU - Decker, Catherine F.
AU - Lazarus, Angeline
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Progress has been made in screening, early recognition, prevention, and treatment of TB, but its coexistence with HIV infection continues to present a challenge. Healthcare professionals should be familiar with guidelines for treating HIV-infected patients with TB while concurrently administering highly active antiretroviral therapy. Primary care physicians are encouraged to consult specialists who are familiar with treatment of patients with such coexisting disease. Whenever feasible, directly observed therapy should be instituted in all cases of TB to promote compliance and reduce the incidence of drug resistance and treatment failure.
AB - Progress has been made in screening, early recognition, prevention, and treatment of TB, but its coexistence with HIV infection continues to present a challenge. Healthcare professionals should be familiar with guidelines for treating HIV-infected patients with TB while concurrently administering highly active antiretroviral therapy. Primary care physicians are encouraged to consult specialists who are familiar with treatment of patients with such coexisting disease. Whenever feasible, directly observed therapy should be instituted in all cases of TB to promote compliance and reduce the incidence of drug resistance and treatment failure.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033844329&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3810/pgm.2000.08.1181
DO - 10.3810/pgm.2000.08.1181
M3 - Article
C2 - 10951746
AN - SCOPUS:0033844329
SN - 0032-5481
VL - 108
SP - 57
EP - 68
JO - Postgraduate Medicine
JF - Postgraduate Medicine
IS - 2
ER -