@article{33195,
  keywords = {Young Adult, Prevalence, Middle Aged, Male, Leishmaniasis, Visceral, Humans, HIV Infections, Female, Brazil, Disease Notification, Coinfection, Child, Preschool, Child, Adult, Adolescent},
  author = {Santos GO and Jesus NPS and Vasconcelos Cerqueira-Braz J and Santos V and Lemos LMD},
  title = {Prevalence of HIV and associated factors among visceral leishmaniasis cases in an endemic area of Northeast Brazil.},
  abstract = {<p><strong>INTRODUCTION: </strong>Cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and HIV co-infection have increased worldwide. We investigated the prevalence of HIV and associated factors among VL patients in Sergipe state, Brazil.</p>

<p><strong>METHODS: </strong>We conducted a population-based study of all cases of VL and HIV reported in Sergipe from 1999 to 2015.</p>

<p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>We studied a total of 917 patients; 41 (4.5%) co-infection cases were detected. VL-HIV co-infected patients were more likely to have weight loss, cough, treatment failure or loss to follow-up and death.</p>

<p><strong>CONCLUSIONS: </strong>The prevalence of VL-HIV co-infection was high and co-infected patients were more likely to have adverse outcomes.</p>
},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical},
  volume = {52},
  pages = {e20180257},
  issn = {1678-9849},
  url = {http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822019000100623&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en},
  doi = {10.1590/0037-8682-0257-2018},
  language = {eng},
}