Study of Rifampicin resistant pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Human immunodeficiency virus co-infected patients using Gene-Xpert assay
Abubakar Muhammad Inuwa, Abdulkadir Magaji Magashi, Adam Uba Muhammad, Umar Muazu Yunusa
Advance Pharmaceutical Journal · 2020-06
Abstract
Background: A major opportunistic infection among HIV-infected people is tuberculosis. It accelerates the deadly progression of HIV which results in a further decline in the patient's immune status and early death.
MeSH terms
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Virology
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Rifampicin
- Tuberculosis
- Medicine
- GeneXpert MTB/RIF
- Microbiology
- Biology