Biomarkers Associated with Death After Initiating Treatment for Tuberculosis and HIV in Patients with Very Low CD4 Cells

• Main Authors: Fred Richard Sattler (Author), Daniel Chelliah (Author), Xingye Wu (Author), Alejandro Sanchez (Author), Michelle A. Kendall (Author), Evelyn Hogg (Author), David Lagat (Author), Umesh Lalloo (Author), Valdilea Veloso (Author), Diane V. Havlir (Author), Alan Landay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Case Western Reserve University, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The risk of short-term death for treatment naive patients dually infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV may be reduced by early anti-retroviral therapy. Of those dying, mechanisms responsible for fatal outcomes are unclear. We hypothesized that greater malnutrition and/or infla...