Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among HIV seropositive patients attending Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Kano, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the prevalence of the pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) among the seropositive HIV patients and also the distribution of all PTB/HIV co-infection between May and August 2006. A total of 350 patients were screened, out of which 140 were PTB/HIV seropositive (40%) in which, 49(35%) were PTB smear-positive while 91 (65%) were found to be smear negative. Observations have shown that, prevalence rate of (21.4%), 30 were females, having the highest prevalence, while (13.6%), 19 were males. However, distribution based on occupational status indicated that, housewives (28.6%), 14 with highest prevalence rate while students (6.1%), 3 have the lowest.  The results had shown that, age group between 35 – 39 years which was (9.29%) has the highest prevalence than 50 – 54 years which was the lowest (1.43%) statistical analysis using chi-square test have shown that there is no significant difference at 5%(df) level of significance.