Abstract
The aim of the study: to compare clinical and X-rays characteristics respiratory tuberculosis identified by screening or uptake with complains among HIV infected patients. Materials and methods. Research included all new cases of respiratory tuberculosis among HIV infected patients of Leningrad district from 2014 to 2016 years. Patients had been identified by two ways: uptake with complaints and screening. Statistical evaluation of groups by tuberculosis signs was carried out: duration
of HIV infection, severity of immunosuppression, extent of lung lesions, cavitations, increased lymph nodes, positive sputum smears or positive sputum cultural for tuberculosis, clinical forms and mortality during the first year treatment. Results. There are 852 HIV/TB patients included in the research. According to these ways all patients separated in two groups: patients with complaints contain 454 persons (53,3%) and patients detected by screening 398 persons (46,7%). Conclusion. Our research showed that there are no any significant difference between HIV/TB patients identified by these ways (by screening or uptake with complains) when comparing on using these tuberculosis signs.