High prevalence and low cure rate of tuberculosis among patients with HIV in Xinjiang, China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical data

		HIV + TB N = 333	HIV only N = 2668
Sex	Men	242	1492
Sex	Women	91	1176
Age	<29	3	85
	30-39	105	917
	40-49	184	1316
	>50	41	381
Ethnic	Uygur	287	2273
	Han	30	308
	Hui	10	109
	Other	6	9
Routes of infection	Blood	3	26
	IVDU	194	1053
	Homosex	1	38
	Sex	94	1190
	MTCT	0	1
	Unknown	23	231
	No data	18	160
CD4	<100	122	492
	100-249	138	1083
	>250	71	1118
	No data	2	6
Opportunistic infections	Oral candida infection	33	49
	PCP	11	6
	Oral hairy leukoplakia	2	16
	KS	4	14
	Generalized herpes infection	12	48
	Others	9	27

Abbrevations: IVDU (intravenous drug users), MTCT (mother-to- child transmission), PCP (Pneumocystis Jiroveci pneumonia), KS (Kaposis Sarkoma)

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