Eight Year Evaluation of HIV/Tuberculosis Co-infection in Patients Admitted to Our Hospital

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a disease that causes serious mortality and morbidity worldwide.Due to the weakening of the immune system, opportunistic infections are common in HIV -positive patients.Tuberculosis, one of the most important of these infections, makes the clinical management of HIV -positive patients even more difficult.In this study, it was aimed to determine the frequency of HIV -tuberculosis coexistence.Tuberculosis cultures of 95 HIV/AIDS patients with confirmed diagnosis between 2014-2021 at Recep Tayyip Erdoan University Training and Research Hospital were retrospectively analyzed.The results of the patients whose anti -HIV Elisa test was reactive were confirmed at the Refik Saydam Institute of Hygiene and Public Health.The diagnosis of tuberculosis was made by detection of growth in Lwenstein-Jensen medium and Mycobacteria Polymerase Chain reaction.We studied a total of 95 HIV positive patients consist of 87(%91.6)males and 8(%8.4)females.Positive tuberculosis culture was detected in 3 (3.1%) of these patients.One of the patients is a foreign national and two of them are Turkish citizens.Tuberculosis is an important cause of mortality in HIV/AIDS patients.Opportunistic infections in these patien ts are the cause of serious mortality and morbidity; therefore, early detection and treatment of these diseases is vital.In primary car e, HIV-positive patients should be screened for Tuberculosis.