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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
卷 194, 期 9, 页码 1152-1163出版社
AMER THORACIC SOC
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201511-2146OC
关键词
Mycobacterium tuberculosis; household contacts; HIV; tuberculosis infection; infectiousness
资金
- Tuberculosis Research Unit
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health [NO1-AI-95383, HHSN266200700022C/NO1-AI-70022]
- AIDS International Training and Research Program of the Fogarty International Center [TW-00011]
- Center for AIDS Research [AI 36219]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [AI 093856]
Rationale: Policy recommendations on contact investigation of HIV-seropositive patients with tuberculosis have changed several times. Current epidemiologic evidence informing these recommendations is considered low quality, and few large studies investigating the infectiousness of HIV-seropositive and -seronegative index cases have been performed in sub-Saharan Africa. Objectives: We assessed the infectiousness of HIV-seropositive and-seronegative patients with tuberculosis to their household contacts and examined potential modifiers of this relationship. Methods: Adults suffering from their first episode of pulmonary tuberculosis were identified in Kampala, Uganda. Field workers visited index households and enrolled consenting household contacts. Latent tuberculosis infection was measured through tuberculin skin testing, and relative risks were calculated using modified Poisson regression models. Standard assessments of interaction between latent tuberculosis infection, the HIV serostatus of index cases, and other variables were performed. Measurements and Main Results: Latent tuberculosis infection was found in 577 of 878 (65.7%) and 717 of 974 (73.6%) household contacts of HIV-seropositive and-seronegative tuberculosis cases (relative risk, 0.89; 95% confidence interval, 0.82-0.97). On further stratification, cavitary lung disease (P < 0.0001 for interaction) and smear status (P = 0.02 for interaction) of tuberculosis cases modified the infectiousness of HIV-seropositive indexes. Cough duration of index cases did not display interaction (P = 0.499 for interaction). Conclusions: This study suggests that HIV-seropositive tuberculosis cases may be less infectious than HIV-seronegative patients only when they are smear-negative or lack cavitary lung disease. These results may explain heterogeneity between prior studies and provide evidence suggesting that tuberculosis contact investigation should include HIV-seropositive index cases in high disease burden settings.
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