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Timothy Mugabi, Suzan Namombwe, Biyue Dai, Elizabeth Nalintya, Laura J Nsangi, et al.
…es describing the global burden of meningitis often exclude HIV- or tuberculosis (TB)-related etiologies, thereby presenting a limited view of meningitis etiology in low- and middle-income countries. This study provides an updated evaluation of the etiology of meningitis and trea…
Cédric Sima Obiang, Thiéry Ndong, Hilaire Kenguele Moundounga, Pelche Bertrand Owono Mezui, Arnaud Brice Pambo–Pambo, et al.
…f this study was to analyse the clinical characteristics of HIV+ and HIV- tuberculosis patients followed and treated at the Oyem Regional Hospital Centre (ORHC).
 Materials and Methods: During this study conducted between January 2019 and December 2021, data collection was b…
Carlos Eduardo Freitas Dantas, Maria Luisa Souza de Paula, Thiago Sales, Mylena Etelvina de Macedo Alves, Pedro Henrique Matheus Leão dos Santos, et al.
… by sex, race/color, age group, treatment adherence, and TB-HIV coinfection. Data were tabulated in Excel and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Between 2013 and 2023, Pernambuco recorded 67,085 TB cases. There was a predominance of males (72.2%; 48,392 cases) and individuals…
Amit Harshana, Mohit Goyal, Augustine Chako, Raman Mahajan
The dual burden of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) impacts people living with HIV (PLHIV) coinfected with TB. Although some primary studies have been reported on the burden of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) among PLHIV in Southeast Asia (SEA), there is no systematic review or meta-analysis t…
Hashim H
…ncreasingly recognized complication of children living with HIV who are receiving treatment for active tuberculosis (TB). The purpose of the study was to appraise available evidence of morbidity and mortality related to TB IRIS among the paediatric population. A non-systematic re…
Martin C, Castaigne C, Vierasu I, Garcia C, Wyndham-Thomas C, et al.
… tuberculosis (TB) throughout the course of TB treatment in HIV patients to evaluate F-FDG PET/CT as a monitoring tool of treatment response. Methods We performed baseline FDG PET/CT, PET-2 after 2 months, and PET-3 at the end of TB treatment in 18 HIV/TB patients. We correlated …
Ndamase S, Okpechi I, Carrara H, Black J, Calligaro G, et al.
…ndard deviation (SD)) was 42 (9.8) years. The prevalence of HIV infection was 11%, all patients were receiving antiretroviral treatment and all had suppressed viral loads. Sixty-eight patients were on haemodialysis and 43 on peritoneal dialysis. Nineteen patients were diagnosed w…
Fred Gordin
…sistance data on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of HIV-infected patients to those of HIV-uninfected patients who are being followed in the CPCRA. To assess the relationship of resistance data with geographic, demographic, and HIV and TB risk factor information. Geograph…
Addisu Assefa, Ararsa Girma, Helmut Kloos
…oblem and ranks alongside the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a leading cause of mortality worldwide. This study investigated the treatment outcome of tuberculosis and predictors of unsuccessful treatment outcome of tuberculosis (TB) patients enrolled in Arsi-Robe Hospital,…
Archana Bajpayee, K. U. Vivek
…opportunistic infection among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive patients in India and HIV/TB co-infection poses a major public health challenge in developing countries. It is estimated that 60-70% of HIV positive patients will develop tuberculosis in their lifetime. The…
Subramani S, Saravanam PK, Rajendran R
…se in the prevalence of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) because of HIV epidemics and increased usage of immunomodulating drugs. EPTB constitutes 15%-20% of all patients with TB and >50% of HIV-TB coinfected patients. We present three such atypical presentations of EPTB in head and neck …
Monita R. Patel
In 2012, the World Health Organization recommended that HIV-infected patients starting tuberculosis (TB) treatment be initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART) after 8 weeks if CD4 count greater than or equal to 50 cells/mm3 and after 2 weeks if CD4 count <50 cells/mm3. Examinati…
Ravindran Chetambath
… adults, patients with TB meningitis, and immunocompromised HIV-infected TB patients. Recent clinical trials have explored the use of higher doses of rifampicin,[4,5] to increase its bactericidal activity with the potential to shorten TB treatment duration. This was corroborated …
Swathy Moorthy, Emmanuel Bhaskar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Santhi Silambanan
…is and management of pulmonary TB, extrapulmonary TB, TB in HIV infected individuals, pregnant women and children. This could serve as a finger-print sort of diagnosis once validated on large scale community-based studies.
Mann D, Sant'Anna FM, Schmaltz CAS, Freitas DFS, Rolla VC, et al.
…(TB). Despite the increase in the number of cases of TB and HIV, few cases of CTB have been reported. Objective To describe CTB cases among patients with HIV infection from a cohort with tuberculosis. Methods We describe a series of 15 CTB and HIV cases, based on secondary data f…
Videlis Nduba
… Kenya had a high burden of TB (400/100,000 population) and HIV prevalence (15%), with 75% of TB cases also HIV infected. Epidemiological studies were conducted among adolescents and infants to determine the burden of tuberculosis and inform future TB vaccine trial design. Subseq…
Manjate N, Ventura J, Nhassengo C, Navaia A, João P, et al.
…2 cases of spinal TB (1 confirmed, 1 clinical diagnosis) in HIV-exposed infants with likely congenital transmission. Increased vigilance for congenital TB, including uncommon presentations, is needed, particularly in countries with high HIV and TB prevalence.
Hongxia Yan, Hongfei Duan, Xiaoxu Han, Jin Sun, Qingtao Liang, et al.
**INTRODUCTION:** Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-infected individuals presents significant challenges due to difficulties in obtaining specimens containing adequate quantities of(). This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of themRNA assay independently and in…
Getaneh Mengistu, Zinaye Tekeste, Daniel Mehabie, Solomon Tesfaye, Amir Alelign
…-7.33) were associated with increased odds of TB infection. HIV sero-positives and those over the age of 45 years were also found to be more likely to be infected with TB. The prevalence of rifampicin-resistant TB among confirmed cases was 2.4 %. **CONCLUSION:** The st…
Maitre T, Bonnet M, Calmy A, Raberahona M, Rakotoarivelo RA, et al.
…ment is poorly effective since TBM mortality reaches 40% in HIV-negative patients and up to 70% in HIV-co-infected patients. To reduce TBM-induced morbidity and mortality, the INTENSE-TBM trial evaluates two interventions in both HIV-infected and uninfected patients: an anti-TB t…
Тетяна Ігорівна Коваль, A. H. Marchenko, Тетяна Михайлівна Котелевська, N. P. Lymarenko, O. Artemieva
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remains one of the most acute problems of modern medicine. Tuberculosis is known as the leading cause of death among the opportunistic infections in HIV-positive people; moreover, TB is also known as resulting in one of three deaths as…
Khan MK, Islam MN, Ferdous J, Alam MM
…nated disease. The number of individuals infected with both HIV and TB is increasing worldwide. The HIV affects the body's immune system and enhances the speed at which TB progresses from a innocuous infection to life threatening condition. TB is a major cause of death of HIV pos…
M K Khan, Μ. Ν. Islam, Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Mahbub Alam
…nated disease. The number of individuals infected with both HIV and TB is increasing worldwide. The HIV affects the body's immune system and enhances the speed at which TB progresses from a innocuous infection to life threatening condition. TB is a major cause of death of HIV pos…
Magni R, Rruga F, Alsaab FM, Sharif S, Howard M, et al.
…abinomannan (LAM) testing has been previously restricted to HIV co-infected TB patients. In this study we evaluate urinary LAM in HIV negative, pediatric and adult, pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients. We measured 430 microbiologically confirmed pretreatment tuberc…
O.D. Nikolayeva
ABSTRACT. The HIV epidemic in Ukraine leads to an increase in the incidence of extrapulmonary and drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB). One of the most dangerous forms of TB in HIV-infected persons is the generalized form with damage to the central nervous system (CNS). The …