More intensive methods needed to identify TB in HIV-prone populations
Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
Identifying tuberculosis patients in Africa using passive methods is leaving many cases undiagnosed, according to researchers from the Netherlands, Kenya and the United States, who studied case detection methods in HIV-prone western Kenya. Tuberculosis (TB) occurs commonly in men and women with HIV, but in these patients TB can be more difficult to detect...