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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
HIV infection and silicosis: The impact of two potent risk factors on the incidence of mycobacterial disease in South African miners
AIDS, Volume 14, No. 17, Year 2000
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Objective: To investigate the combined effects of HIV infection and silicosis on mycobacterial disease. Design and setting: A retrospective cohort of 1374 HIV-positive and 2648 HIV-negative miners who attended a South African gold mining hospital and primary health clinics. Participants: Miners who had been tested for HIV, with consent, at primary health clinics during 1991-1996, predominantly because of a symptomatic sexually transmitted disease. Results: Tuberculosis (TB) incidence was 4.9 and 1.1 per 100 person-years in HIV-positive and HIV-negative miners respectively. The incidence of Mycobacterium kansasii disease was also high (0.32 and 0.10 per 100 person-years, respectively). Silicosis was highly prevalent, implying inadequate dust control, and was a significant TB risk factor among both HIV-positive and HIV-negative men (adjusted incidence rate ratios 1.4-2.5 according to radiological severity). The data were consistent with the risks of silicosis and HIV combining multiplicatively, but did not fit an additive model. The incidence of HIV-associated TB increased significantly during the study, with no corresponding change in HIV-negative rates, to reach 16.1 per 100 person-years among HIV-positive silicotics. Conclusions: The risks of silicosis and HIV infection combine multiplicatively, so that TB remains as much a silica-related occupational disease in HIV-positive as in HIV-negative miners, and HIV-positive silicotics have considerably higher TB incidence rates than those reported from other HIV-positive Africans. The increasing impact of HIV over time may indicate epidemic TB transmission with rapid disease development in HIV-infected miners. Similar but currently unrecognized interactions may be contributing to TB control problems in other industrializing countries affected by the HIV epidemic. © 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Authors & Co-Authors
Corbett, Elizabeth L.
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Churchyard, Gavin John
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Clayton, Tim C.
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Williams, Brian Gerard
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Mulder, Daan W.
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Hayes, Richard John
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de Cock, Kevin M.
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Statistics
Citations: 195
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1097/00002030-200012010-00016
Research Areas
Environmental
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Cohort Study
Participants Gender
Male