Alrajhi A A, Nematallah A, Abdulwahab S, Bukhary Z
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
East Mediterr Health J. 2002 Nov;8(6):749-53.
Our study determined the rate of screening tuberculosis patients for HIV co-infection and the HIV seroprevalence among them. We retrospectively reviewed medical charts of 437 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis from 1995-2000 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Screening was done for 178 (41%) patients: 2 (1.1%) of these were found to be HIV positive. Prior to screening, 4 patients were already known to be HIV positive. Males were screened more often than females (45% and 36% respectively). All HIV positive patients were males. Screening was not affected by origin of the patient, history of prior tuberculosis or treatment, type of tuberculosis involvement or resistance to first line anti-tuberculosis agents. In Saudi Arabia, screening for HIV in tuberculosis patients remains underutilized. Among screened patients, seropositivity was low.
我们的研究确定了对结核病患者进行HIV合并感染筛查的比率以及他们当中的HIV血清阳性率。我们回顾性地查阅了1995年至2000年在沙特阿拉伯利雅得被诊断为结核病的437名患者的病历。对178名（41%）患者进行了筛查：其中2名（1.1%）被发现HIV呈阳性。在筛查之前，已知有4名患者HIV呈阳性。男性接受筛查的频率高于女性（分别为45%和36%）。所有HIV呈阳性的患者均为男性。患者的来源、既往结核病病史或治疗情况、结核病受累类型或对一线抗结核药物的耐药性均不影响筛查。在沙特阿拉伯，对结核病患者进行HIV筛查的利用率仍然很低。在接受筛查的患者中，血清阳性率较低。
