Abstract
TB in HIV-infected individuals is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries and poses enormous problems to the health services. Despite the availability of curative therapy, the incidence of TB in children and adults is increasing at an alarming rate and poses a grave threat to TB control programmes in developing countries. Prospective studies to define basic clinical, microbiological and epidemiological features of the resurgence of childhood TB in the light of the HIV epidemic are required.
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Chifumbe Chintu, Professor and Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia.
Alimuddin Zumla, Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCLMS, London, UK.