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Volume 94, Issue 3 , Page 276 , May 2000

Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection among tuberculosis cases in some clinics in Dhaka, Bangladesh

M. Salimullah
- Department of Immunology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Y. Tahera
- Department of Immunology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
M.A. Siddiqui
- Department of Immunology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
M.A. Salam
- Department of Immunology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
M.A.K. Rumi
- Department of Immunology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
F. Huq
- Department of Microbiology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
M.S. Hassan
- Address for correspondence: M. S. Hassan, Principal Research Officer and Head, Department of Immunology, BIRDEM Hospital, 122 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh; phone +880 2 8616641-50 extn 2262, fax +880 2 8613004.
- Department of Immunology, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Received 9 August 1999 ,Revised 14 December 1999 ,Accepted 17 January 2000.

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