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HIV-infected individuals are highly susceptible to contracting tuberculous infection and are prone to rapid evolution of active disease [ 10 ] . The rate of tuberculosis is high in African Americans and in injection drug users [ 11 ] . Although the prevalence of a positive AFB smear in patients with pulmonary MTB is approximately the same in HIV-infected and noninfected individuals, it may decline in advanced HIV-mediated immunosuppression [ 12 ] . A previous study of 133 HIV-infected adults with pulmonary MTB showed 14% of them had a normal chest radiograph [ 13 ] .
In the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, the AFB smear of the sputum was positive in one case, and in another case the AFB smear was positive in his stool sample.
Interestingly, in three patients the direct AFB staining in blood was positive, and M. avium was later identified in these blood cultures (Table 3).
In the PIP study of predominantly African-American patients, nearly 50% of the MTB isolates had a negative AFB smear, none of the isolates was isoniazid resistant, and 25% of the admissions with MTB respiratory infection had no infiltrate on the initial chest radiograph.
At baseline and monthly follow-up visits, patients had a full medical history and physical examination, a complete blood count (Coulter Electronics, Hialeah, Florida, USA), sputum AFB microscopy and culture, chest radiography, and serum β 2 -microglobulin measurement (β 2 -microglobulin enzyme immunoassay (EIA); Coulter, Miami, Florida, USA).
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