TY - JOUR T1 - HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: overlapping risk factors JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 567 LP - 569 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00131014 VL - 45 IS - 2 AU - Susan van den Hof AU - Aigul Tursynbayeva AU - Tleukhan Abildaev AU - Malik Adenov AU - Svetlana Pak AU - Shakhimurat Ismailov Y1 - 2015/02/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/2/567.abstract N2 - Recent meta-analyses have indicated that, on average, new HIV-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients are at increased risk of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB compared with HIV-negative patients, while this risk is less clear for previously treated TB patients [1, 2]. In a recent issue of the European Respiratory Journal, Dean et al. [3] reported an association between HIV infection and MDR-TB disease based on aggregated data reported annually to the World Health Organization.Overlapping risk factors may explain observed association between HIV and drug resistance in TB patients http://ow.ly/DdRGT ER -