Nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency must be addressed with the same urgency as HIV to end tuberculosis

• Main Authors: Madolyn R. Dauphinais (Author), Kobto G. Koura (Author), Prakash Babu Narasimhan (Author), Saurabh Mehta (Author), Julia L. Finkelstein (Author), Scott K. Heysell (Author), Pranay Sinha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer worldwide, with 10.6 million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2021 alone. One in 5 incident TB cases were attributable to malnutrition, more than double the fraction attributed to HIV. Like HIV, malnutrition is a cause of secondary immunodef...