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| Neto,Luanda M.S.; Oliveira,Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de; Totino,Paulo Renato; Sant'Anna,Flavia Marinho; Coelho,Viviane de Oliveira; Rolla,Valeria Cavalcanti; Zanini,Graziela M.. |
| Tuberculosis and intestinal parasites affect primarily low social and economic level populations, living clustered in precarious habitational settings. One of the interesting aspects of this interaction is the parasitism influence in cellular response to tuberculosis. In the present study, we evaluated the prevalence of enteroparasitosis in tuberculosis patients, HIV-infected and non HIV infected, and we observed the influence of helminth presence in the response to tuberculin skin test (TST) and tuberculosis clinical outcomes. From 607 clinical records reviewed, 327 individuals met the study inclusion criteria and did not present any exclusion criteria. The prevalence of enteroparasites observed was 19.6%. There was no significant association among TST... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tuberculosis; Intestinal parasites; Tuberculin skin test; Survival. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702009000600008 |
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