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Volume 14, Issue 7 , Pages e586-e591 , July 2010

Tuberculous meningitis in HIV-infected patients in Brazil: clinical and laboratory characteristics and factors associated with mortality

Mariana G. Croda
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Sao Paulo, Brazil
José E. Vidal
- Department of Neurology, Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- AIDS Clinic, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Rua Frei Caneca 557, 01307-001, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +55 11 38812834; fax: +55 11 31205290.
Adrián V. Hernández
- Health Outcomes and Clinical Epidemiology Section, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Tiago Dal Molin
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Felipe A. Gualberto
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Augusto C. Penalva de Oliveira
- Department of Neurology, Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Clinical Research Unit in Human Retrovirology, University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Received 13 January 2009 ,Revised 8 July 2009 ,Accepted 13 August 2009.

Kaplan–Meier graph showing the probability of survival of HIV-infected patients with tuberculous meningitis (dotted lines are 95% confidence intervals).

Kaplan–Meier graph showing the probability of survival of HIV-infected patients with tuberculous meningitis (dotted lines are 95% confidence intervals).
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