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Background: The study adequately demonstrates the entire gamut of clinical presentations in AIDS. The scourge is TB followed by Acute bronchitis, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Bacterial pneumonia. The concept ‘Hit hard, hit early should be adequate to treat TB’ is demonstrated with SCC. Results and Conclusions: Patients were closely monitored for compliance and safety, profile of SCC and antiretroviral drugs. Gastrointestinal disturbances, peripheral neuropathy, jaundice, hepatitis, arthralgia and hyperuricaemia were significantly higher in 29 HIV vs 546 non HIV patients. Sputum remained positive at end of 3rd follow up in 86.2% HIV vs 12.2% non HIV patients in spite of the subset of HIV patients in this study not being in advanced immunosuppression, as evidenced by minimal opportunistic infections, chest X-ray findings upper lobe lesions seen predominantly in non HIV population, low incidence of EPTB.
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Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
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Bombay : Association of Physicians of India
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