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Patients with HIV may also be co-infected with hepatitis B or C and the liver toxicity of tuberculosis drugs can be problematic. Peripheral neuropathy occurs with HIV infection itself or with some anti-retrovirals. It is imperative that HIV patients on isoniazid are given pyridoxine routinely. With these caveats, standard tuberculosis treatment regimes are used as with non-HIV patients. An added issue is drug interactions between tuberculosis treatment (rifampicin in particular) and anti-retroviral drugs (protease inhibitors in particular).
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Increasingly HIV has become a heterosexual epidemic and in some countries key heterosexual groups are immigrants from high endemicity countries. Prompts to think about immunocompromise and HIV infection may come from oral thrush, oral hairy leukoplakia, persistent lymphadenopathy, herpes zoster infection at a young age, diarrhoea and weight loss, recurrent infections, persistent skin problems, and a raised ESR at a young age. In a UK and Ireland questionnaire survey Sullivan et al. (2005) found that a clue was present in 17% of patients over the 12 months prior to their HIV diagnosis.
