%0 Journal Article
%T Mortality in HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis treated with streptomycin and a two-week intensified regimen: data from an HIV cohort study using inverse probability of treatment weighting
%A Gerardo Alvarez-Uria
%A Manoranjan Midde
%A Praveen K. Naik
%J Archive of "PeerJ".
%D 2016
%R 10.7717/peerj.2053
%X Background. Despite the dramatic scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries, tuberculosis (TB) is still the main cause of death among HIV-infected patients in resource-limited settings. Previous studies in patients with TB meningitis suggest that the use of higher doses of common anti-TB drugs could reduce mortality
%K Rifampicin
%K Ethambutol
%K Drug synergism
%K Drug therapy combination
%K Poverty
%K AIDS
%K Albumin
%K Antiretroviral therapy
%K Propensity score
%K Acute medicine
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4878376/