Prevalence of mycobacteremia among HIV-infected infants and children in northern Tanzania.

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a common cause of bloodstream infections among HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa, and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. We found no cases of mycobacteremia among 93 ill, HIV-infected children in northern Tanzania, despite optimization of laboratory methods and selection of patients thought to be at highest risk for disseminated infection.

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Adolescent, Bacteremia, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, HIV Infections, Humans, Infant, Male, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Prevalence, Tanzania, Tuberculosis

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10.1097/INF.0b013e318286957f

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Gray, Katherine D, Coleen K Cunningham, Dana C Clifton, Isaac A Afwamba, Godfrey S Mushi, Levina J Msuya, John A Crump, Ann M Buchanan, et al. (2013). Prevalence of mycobacteremia among HIV-infected infants and children in northern Tanzania. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 32(7). pp. 754–756. 10.1097/INF.0b013e318286957f Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13781.

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Clifton

Dana Cooley Clifton

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Crump

John Andrew Crump

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine

I am based in northern Tanzania where I am Site Leader for Duke University’s collaborative research program based at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre and Director of Tanzania Operations for the Duke Global Health Institute. I oversee the design and implementation of research studies on infectious diseases, particularly febrile illness, invasive bacterial disease, HIV-associated opportunistic infections, clinical trials of antiretroviral therapy and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and infectious diseases diagnostics. In addition, I am a medical epidemiologist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). My CDC work focuses on enteric infection epidemiology and prevention in developing countries, particularly invasive salmonelloses.

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