Morbidity and Mortality Patterns of Hospitalised Adult HIV/AIDS Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: A 4-year Retrospective Review from Zaria, Northern Nigeria
Table 3
Types of tuberculosis and specific aetiological diagnoses in patients in relation to antiretroviral therapy status.
Diagnoses and specific aetiologies
ART status %
Total
No HAART
Receiving-HAART
Types of tuberculosis
Disseminated (mainly nodes and lungs)
30
12
42
Pulmonary
10
2
12
Spinal
6
—
6
Meningitis
5
—
5
Pericardial effusion
—
1
1
Pleural effusion
1
1
2
Peritonitis
1
—
1
Causes of diarrhoea
Salmonellosis
1
—
1
Giardia Lamdlia
2
—
2
Strongyloides stercoralis
1
—
1
Cryptosporidium parvum
1
—
1
Unknown*
3
6
9
Causes of pneumonia
Streptococcus pneumonia
2
1
3
Klebsiella pneumonia
1
—
1
Pneumocystis jiroveci
**
—
1
1
Unknown*
5
1
6
NB—*unknown implied that stool/sputum culture was negative or not done.
**Diagnosis of pneumocystis jiroveci was clinical.
