- This exact case study cannot be republished: it
was copyrighted in ©2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society
of America
- http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ucp/WebIntegrationServlet?call=ContentWeblet&url=
- http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v43n7/39938/39938.html?erFrom=-
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- June 6 2007. At Iran's National Research Institute of
Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Tehran, at least twelve XDR-TB patients
were diagnosed from a group of 2,030 TB patients being treated
there between 2003 and 2005. This information emerged from a copyrighted
medical case study published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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- Importantly -- and while this study makes no mention
of the HIV-status of these people at all , nor whether they
have since died -- all twelve were identified as having the hiv-related
Haarlem-1 and EastAfricaAsian-1 sub-strains of XDR-TB.
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- The Iranian research team -- Mohamad Reza Masjedi,
Parissa Farnia, Setara Sorooch, Majid Valiollah Pooramiri, Seyed Davood
Mansoori, Abolhasan Zia Zarifi, Ali AkbarVelayati, and Sven Hoffner --
identified 4 XDR-TB cases inside one single family, and 8 cases who had
been close contacts of one another. They said two different strains
had been identified -- Haarlem-1 and EastAfricaAsian-1.
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- Both of these sub-strains are hiv-related. See the following
study:
- http://www.tuberculosistextbook.com/pdf/tbhiv.pdf
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