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Hoa NB, Nhung NV
Background Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV remain a major causes of morbidity and mortality globally. We conducted an analysis of TB/HIV surveillance data to describe the trends in HIV testing coverage and HIV positivity rate among TB patients in Viet Nam, 2011-2017. Main text This was…
Selimin DS, Ismail A, Ahmad N, Ismail R, Mohd Azman NF, et al.
… threat to people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This study aimed to identify the characteristics, unsuccessful TB treatment rate, and determinants of unsuccessful TB treatment outcome among patients with TB-HIV coinfection in Kuala Lumpur. Methods This was a cro…
Gamuchirai P. Gwaza, Monkoe Leqheka, Sabine Dittrich, Tsietso Mots’oane, Kekeletso Kao
Introduction: Integrated testing of TB and HIV can improve health outcomes and save costs. The GeneXpert (GX) instrument, a multi-disease testing platform, can allow for simultaneous HIV and TB testing. However, utilization of the platform for integrated testing remains suboptima…
Vecchione MB, Laufer N, Sued O, Corti M, Salomon H, et al.
…. Risk of developing TB among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-coinfected patients (HIV-TB) is 20-30 times higher than those without HIV infection, and a synergistic interplay between these two pathogens accelerates the decline in immunological functions. TB treatment in HIV-TB…
Turbawaty DK, Surdjaja NR, Indrati AR, Lismayanti L, Logito V
Introduction Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a risk factor for the occurrence of a large of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigen load in the body. The antigens cocktail namely early secretory antigenic target protein 6-kDa (ESAT-6), Culture filtrate protein 10…
Yuyun Monita, Putroue Keumala Intan
The condition in which an individual is affected by TB and HIV/AIDS in his body is called a TB-HIV/AIDS coinfection. This research aims to minimize the populations of TB-HIV/AIDS coinfection with a minimum expenditure on medical expenses, that means minimizing the objective’s fun…
Habibi P, Daniell H, Soccol CR, Grossi-de-Sa MF
Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can place a major burden on healthcare systems and constitute the main challenges of diagnostic and therapeutic programmes. Infection with HIV is the most common cause of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which can accelera…
Villalva-Serra K, Barreto-Duarte B, Nunes VM, Menezes RC, Rodrigues MMS, et al.
…untries that also report high numbers of people living with HIV (PLWH) and/or diabetes mellitus (DM). However, the unique features of persons with TB-HIV-DM are incompletely understood. This study compared anti-TB treatment (ATT) outcomes of diabetic and non-diabetic TB/HIV co-in…
Hestad KA, Chinyama J, Anitha MJ, Ngoma MS, McCutchan JA, et al.
Background HIV infection may result in neurocognitive deficits, but the effects of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB+), a common comorbid condition in HIV infection, on cognition in HIV infections are unknown. Accordingly, we examined the effects of TB+, on neurocognitive functioning in…
Ihim Augustine Chinedu, Meludu Samuel Chukwuemeka, Onyenekwe Charles Chinedum
…ting 120 treatment naive individuals with active TB [26 (TB+HIV+) and 12 malaria parasite (MP) and TB (TB+MP+) co-infection, 82 HIV negative (TB+HIV−)], 26 Latent TB (LTB) and 105 apparently healthy control (AHC). TB infection was determined by Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smeared micros…
Diana Safraa Selimin, Aniza Ismail, Norfazilah Ahmad, Rohani Ismail, Nurul Farhana Mohd Azman, et al.
… threat to people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This study aimed to identify the characteristics, unsuccessful TB treatment rate and determinants of unsuccessful TB treatment outcome among patients with TB-HIV co-infection in Kuala Lumpur.Methods This was a cros…
Anguzu G, Gupta AJ, Ochom E, Tseng AS, Zhang M, et al.
…epidemiological links between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) may make household TB contact investigation an efficient strategy for HIV screening and finding individuals in serodifferent partnerships at risk of HIV and linking them to HIV prevention servi…
Shrestha S, Angolkar M, Narasannavar A, Al-Aghbari N, Ritti AK, et al.
Background Human immunodeficiency virus - Tuberculosis (HIV-TB) co-infected patients have a greater risk of mortality, treatment failure, and recurrence. The significant morbidity and mortality rates associated with tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection in child…
Daniel Bonnet, MD, France Mentre, PHD
… and T-SPOT.TB® for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis in HIV infected antiretroviral naive patients: 80 originated from low TB prevalence countries, without any active TB; 80 HIV infected antiretroviral naïve patients originated from high TB prevalence countries, without any a…
S. T. Kavya, Avinash Hanbe Rajanna, Pradeep R. Bojja
HIV-TB Co-infection is increasing in the current scenario. TB is the leading cause of mortality in people living with HIV (PLHIV). HIV-infected persons have approximately an 8-times greater risk of TB than persons without HIV infection. HIV infection increases the risk of reactiv…
Meehan SA, Sloot R, Draper HR, Naidoo P, Burger R, et al.
Background Diagnosing HIV and/or TB is not sufficient; linkage to care and treatment is conditional to reduce the burden of disease. This study aimed to determine factors associated with linkage to HIV care and TB treatment at community-based services in Cape Town, South Africa. …
Zhonghui Liao, Sumei Yang, Qian Li, Hongzhou Lu
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic has caused a resurgence of tuberculosis (TB), thus increasing morbidity and mortality. Moreover, HIV-TB coinfection leads to difficulties in diagnosis. Sputum smear microscopy, mycobacterial culture and GeneXpert MTB/RIF assays are …
Irini Sereti, M.D.
…ho are also infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, not much is known about how these two infections affect each other. Some people who have HIV or TB infections develop health problems after they start taking either HIV or TB medications or both. These dru…
Tshifhiwa Nkwenika, Samuel Manda
…is very significant in South Africa due to the influence of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Injuries and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Previous analyses have mainly focused on assessing the time effect of age and period separately. However, health outcomes often depend on three-…
Marks SM, Katz DJ, Davidow AL, Pagaoa MA, Teeter LD, et al.
…ns (blacks) (12% of the US population) accounted for 41% of HIV diagnoses during 2008-2014. HIV infection significantly increases TB and TB-related mortality. TB rate ratios were 6 to 7 times as high in blacks versus US-born non-Hispanic whites (whites) during 2013-2016. We analy…
Umulkhairah Onyioiza Arama, Oluwatoyin Ayo-Farai, Mosunmade Oshingbesan, Bushra Murtaza, Sana Rasheed, et al.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) co-infection in Nigeria are medical conditions of public health importance because they double the country's and its citizens' burden. Several management measures, including artificial intelligence (AI), are crucial for pro…
Elisa López‐Varela, Durval Respeito, Silvia Blanco, Manuel Gimo, Charfudin Sacoor, et al.
…nd a leading cause of disease and death. People living with HIV (PLHIV) are at a higher risk of developing TB, and TB is the largest cause of death among this population, accounting for 37% of AIDS-related deaths in 2016.1 Early TB diagnosis among PLHIV is crucial for improved pa…
Aisha Athman Katuga
… and the leading cause from a single infectious agent above HIV/AIDS. Millions of people continue to fall sick with the disease each year. Not less than one-third of people living with HIV are also infected with TB. At autopsy, studies have found that 30 – 50% of patients have ev…
Maemun S, Mariana N, Rusli A, Mahkota R, Purnama TB
Background The HIV epidemic remains a public health problem with rising tuberculosis (TB) numbers around the world. Antiretroviral (ARV) therapy (ART) is essential to increase the survival of patients with TB-HIV coinfection. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of …
Tola A, Mishore KM, Ayele Y, Mekuria AN, Legese N
…mics of Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes major global health challenges in the twenty-first century. TB-HIV co-infected people are facing multifaceted problems like high lost to follow up rates, poor treatment adherence, high TB recurrence rate, and…