Tuberculosis among HIV-infected patients receiving HAART: long term incidence and risk factors in a South African cohort.

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Published in AIDS on December 02, 2005

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Stephen D Lawn1, Motasim Badri, Robin Wood

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1: The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. stevelawn@yahoo.co.uk

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