HIV and Tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1997–2002

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Buu, Tran Ngoc ; Houben, Rein M.G.J. ; Quy, Hoang Thi ; Lan, Nguyen Thi Ngoc ; Borgdorff, Martien W. ; Cobelens, Frank G.J.
• Description:
  In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reporting rates for tuberculosis (TB) are rising in an emerging HIV epidemic. To describe the HIV epidemic among TB patients and quantify its impact on rates of reported TB, we performed a repeated cross-sectional survey from 1997 through 2002 in a randomly selected sample of inner city TB patients. We assessed effect by adjusting TB case reporting rates by the fraction of TB cases attributable to HIV infection. HIV prevalence in TB patients rose exponentially from 1.5% to 9.0% during the study period. Young (<35 years), single, male patients were mostly affected; injection drug use was a potent risk factor. After correction for HIV infection, the trend in TB reporting rates changed from a 1.9% increase to a 0.4% decrease per year. An emerging HIV epidemic, concentrated in young, male, injection drug users, is responsible for increased TB reporting rates in urban Vietnam.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Age Factors Cross-Sectional Studies Disease Outbreaks Female Hiv Infections Hiv Seroprevalence Humans Male Middle Aged Prevalence Sentinel Surveillance Sex Factors Substance Abuse, Intravenous Tuberculosis

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 13(10):1464-1469.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Vietnam
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1df7253006fbd80832261a02fcc171de55a356a8716b8ca4aec67de4c2b7fdec
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16432/cdc_16432_DS1.pdf
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