DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i03.060

Pages: 1031-1037

There is a growing concern regarding opportunistic infections associated with seropositive HIV with pulmonary tuberculosis. Hence the present study was carried out with an objective to find out the pattern of pulmonary infection and their association with immunological profile among the HIV- TB co-infected patients registered in a tertiary care referral unit of Odisha. In this retrospective study the diagnosed cases of pulmonary TB with HIV coinfection, having other pulmonary manifestations registered within June 2013 to May 2016 (three years) were included. The extra pulmonary TB cases were excluded. The detailed basal characteristics, sputum culture characteristics and CD4 count of all included patients were noted. In this study, maximum cases were within age range of 31-45 years (35.29%) and males outnumbered females (M: 73.53%; F: 26.47%). Majority of them were from rural community (92.65%). Only 30.88% of all were on antiretroviral therapy. 58. 82% of all had CD4 count below 200/µl. In sputum culture, only bacterial growth, only fungal growth and mixed bacterial as well as fungal growth was seen in 17.65%, 27.94% and 20.59% of samples respectively.