[AIDS and tuberculosis--the status in Cologne].

The incidence of tuberculosis among people with AIDS in the USA is about four per cent. This is one hundred to two hundred times the incidence of that of the general population. The aim of this study is to get more detailed information about the coincidence between HIV infection/AIDS illness and tuberculosis in Cologne. 2.6% of HIV carriers or people with AIDS are also infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis; this is 81 times of that among the general population in Cologne.