Objective To assess the magnitude of loss to follow-up in smear-or culture-positive
tuberculosis patients before treatment initiation and outcomes among patients who were …

Despite wide antiretroviral scale-up during the past two decades resulting in declining new
infections and mortality globally, HIV-associated tuberculosis remains as a major public …

Co-infection with HIV increases the morbidity and mortality associated with tuberculosis due
to multiple factors including a poorly understood microbial synergy. We developed a novel …

Tuberculosis is an ever evolving infectious disease that still claims about 1.8 million human
lives each year around the globe. Although modern chemotherapy has played a pivotal role …

We introduce a novel fractional-order model for the coinfection of HIV and tuberculosis (TB),
in the presence of multi-drug resistant TB strains (MDR-TB) and treatment for both diseases …

Background The purpose of this study is to propose the Least Absolute Shrinkage and
Selection Operators procedure (LASSO) as an alternative to conventional variable selection …

Since the 1990s we have known of the fascinating ability of a complex set of professional
antigen presenting cells (APCs; dendritic cells, monocytes/macrophages, and B …

Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is highly prevalent among HIV-infected people, including those
receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), necessitating a well tolerated and …

Introduction The impact of TB disease on survival in people living with HIV in high resource
settings is not well documented in the antiretroviral treatment (ART) era. We calculated TB …

Background The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis (DR-TB) drugs and the HIV
epidemic represent a serious threat for reducing the global burden of TB. Although data on …