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. 2018 Apr 26:36:603-638.
doi: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-042617-053420. Epub 2018 Feb 28.

The Immune Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in HIV-1-Coinfected Persons

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The Immune Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in HIV-1-Coinfected Persons

Hanif Esmail et al. Annu Rev Immunol. .

Abstract

Globally, about 36.7 million people were living with HIV infection at the end of 2015. The most frequent infection co-occurring with HIV-1 is Mycobacterium tuberculosis-374,000 deaths per annum are attributable to HIV-tuberculosis, 75% of those occurring in Africa. HIV-1 infection increases the risk of tuberculosis by a factor of up to 26 and alters its clinical presentation, complicates diagnosis and treatment, and worsens outcome. Although HIV-1-induced depletion of CD4+ T cells underlies all these effects, more widespread immune deficits also contribute to susceptibility and pathogenesis. These defects present a challenge to understand and ameliorate, but also an opportunity to learn and optimize mechanisms that normally protect people against tuberculosis. The most effective means to prevent and ameliorate tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected people is antiretroviral therapy, but this may be complicated by pathological immune deterioration that in turn requires more effective host-directed anti-inflammatory therapies to be derived.

Keywords: HIV-1 infection; drug therapy; immune response; pathogenesis; tuberculosis.

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