High incidence of tuberculosis in patients treated for hepatitis C chronic infection
Brazil is one of the 22 countries that concentrates 80% of global tuberculosis cases concomitantly to a large number of hepatitis C carriers and some epidemiological risk scenarios are coincident for both diseases. We analyzed tuberculosis cases that occurred during α-interferon-based therapy for he...
Main Authors: | Silvia Naomi de Oliveira Uehara, Christini Takemi Emori, Renata Mello Perez, Maria Cassia Jacintho Mendes-Correa, Adalgisa de Souza Paiva Ferreira, Ana Cristina de Castro Amaral Feldner, Antonio Eduardo Benedito Silva, Roberto José Carvalho Filho, Ivonete Sandra de Souza e Silva, Maria Lucia Cardoso Gomes Ferraz |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-03-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867016300204 |
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