Undernourished Household Contacts Are at Increased Risk of Tuberculosis (TB) Disease, but not TB Infection-a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Analysis.

Pranay SinhaKomala EzhumalaiXinyi DuChinnaiyan PonnurajaMadolyn Rose DauphinaisNikhil GupteSonali SarkarAmita GuptaSanjay GaikwadBalamugesh ThangakunamMandar ParadkarDevasahayam J ChristopherVidya MaveVijay ViswanathanJerrold J EllnerHardy KornfeldC R HorsburghChandrasekaran PadmapriyadarsiniAkshay Gupte

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)

Undernutrition is the leading risk factor for tuberculosis (TB) globally and in India. This multicenter prospective cohort analysis from India suggests that undernutrition is associated with increased risk of TB disease but not TB infection among household contacts of persons with TB.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
pulmonary tuberculosis
emergency department
cross sectional
hiv aids
double blind