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ArticleJournal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)2014

The effect of tuberculosis treatment on virologic and immunologic response to combination antiretroviral therapy among South African children.

Heidi M Soeters, Shobna Sawry, Harry Moultrie, Annelies Van Rie

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Article in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. HIV treatment cascade in tuberculosis patients.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heidi M Soeters*Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and †Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Shobna Sawry
Harry Moultrie
Annelies Van Rie
University of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

North Carolina Translational & Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)UL1TR001111 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BUSE, JOHN BERNARD, CAREY, TIMOTHY S · 2013 to 2017
$43.9M
Impact of malnutrition on TB-IRIS and pharmacokinetics of TB and ARV co-treatmentR01HD058972 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI VAN RIE, ANNELIES T.A. · 2008 to 2012
$2.6M
NCATS NIH HHS 1UL1TR001111-01NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001111NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD058972NICHD NIH HHS R01HD058972
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMany HIV-infected children are diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), but the effect of TB treatment on virologic and immunologic response to combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is not well documented.

methodsSecondary analysis of a prospective cohort of cART-naive HIV-infected South African children aged 0-8 years initiating cART to assess the effect of TB treatment at the time of cART initiation on virologic suppression (HIV RNA < 50 copies/mL), virologic rebound (HIV RNA > 1000 copies/mL after suppression), and CD4 cell percent (CD4%) increase during the first 24 months of cART.

resultsOf 199 children (median age 2.1 years), 92 (46%) were receiving TB treatment at cART initiation. Children receiving and not receiving TB treatment at cART initiation had similar median baseline HIV RNA (5.4 vs. 5.6 copies/mL), median time to virologic suppression (6.2 months in each group, adjusted hazard ratio, 1.36, 95% confidence interval: 0.94 to 1.96), and rates of virologic rebound by 24 months (23% vs. 24%, adjusted hazard ratio 1.53, 95% confidence interval: 0.71 to 3.30). Children on TB treatment had significantly lower median CD4% at baseline (15.3% vs. 18.8%, P < 0.01) and during the first 12 months of cART but experienced similar median increases in CD4% at 6 months (9.9% vs. 9.6%), 12 months (14.2% vs. 11.9%), and 24 months of cART (14.5% vs. 14.2%). Exploratory analyses suggest that children receiving lopinavir/ritonavir-based cART and TB treatment may have inferior virologic and immunologic response compared with children receiving efavirenz-based cART.

conclusionsReceiving TB treatment at the time of cART initiation did not substantially affect virologic or immunologic response to cART in young children.

Indexed as

Anti-Retroviral AgentsAntiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveAntitubercular AgentsCD4 Lymphocyte CountChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLongitudinal StudiesMaleProspective StudiesRNA, ViralAnti-Retroviral AgentsAntitubercular AgentsRNA, Viral

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PMID25072611
PMCPMC4162748
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