38 Surveillance of Tuberculosis and AIDS Co-Morbidity--Florida, 1981-1993

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 19, 1996/Vol. 45/No. 02
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SUMMARY: 38 Because immunosuppression induced by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection increases the likelihood that latent tuberculosis (TB) infection will become active in HIV-infected persons, in 1987, extrapulmonary or disseminated TB was added to the acquired immunodeficiency syndome (AIDS) surveillance case definition, and in 1993, pulmonary TB in HIV-infected persons was added to the case definition.

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