To identify patients with coexisting HIV infection and tuberculosis (TB) and recent trends in prevalence and factors associated with coinfection.
Case review.
All known patients with TB and HIV infection in British Columbia, in whom TB was diagnosed between 1990 and 1994. This group was compared with those in whom TB was diagnosed between 1984 and 1990.
Patients' demographic characteristics and risk factors for HIV infection, site of TB, occurrence of drug-resistant TB, treatment and outcome.
Forty-four patients with HIV infection and TB were identified, of whom 16% were women, whereas non of those diagnosed from 1984 to 1990 were women, and 14 (32%) were aboriginal Canadians, compared with only 3 (8%) of those diagnosed from 1984 to 1990 (p