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Preventive therapy for tuberculosis in HIV infection

AIDSPublished 1 July 1995
Richard O’Brien, Joseph H. Perriëns
Citations38
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SJR score1.21
SNIP0.90

TL;DR

Recommendation is the approach adopted in the US of providing a six-month course of isoniazid to those with a positive tuberculin skin test reaction and epidemiologic risk factors; for those already infected with HIV, 12 months of treatment is suggested.

Abstract

From the Global Tuberculosis Programme and Global Programme on AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Keywords

Medicine