Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among HIV/AIDS patients in Thailand: clinical manifestations and outcomes

Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2002 Jun;33(2):346-51.

Abstract

A one year retrospective study, was conducted at Bamrasnaradura Hospital, Nonthaburi Province, Bangkok, Thailand, of 271 subjects with both TB and HIV/AIDS. Single males (median age group 31 to 40 years) were most likely to develop co-infection. The commonest clinical manifestations on initial presentation included a low grade fever, cough, weight loss, lymphadenopathy with pancytopenia, and lung infiltrates. Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) was found in 26.6% of the subjects which was significantly associated with a past history of anti-TB treatment (p = 0.005; OR=2.5); it was also significantly associated with disseminated TB (p = 0.022; OR=1.9) and mortality (p= 0.013; OR=2.8). Analysis of clinical outcomes showed that 46.7% were lost to follow-up and 13.3% had died by the time of follow-up. Among those who survived, only 11.4% had been successfully treated; the rest had not improved due to relapse (2.9%), therapeutic failure (8.8%), treatment in progress (5.9%), and failure to complete treatment (10.7%).

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / epidemiology*
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / physiopathology*
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Thailand / epidemiology
  • Treatment Outcome*
  • Tuberculosis / complications
  • Tuberculosis / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis / epidemiology*
  • Tuberculosis / physiopathology*
  • Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / epidemiology