Abstract
Infants who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-exposed uninfected (iHEU) experience higher risk of infectious morbidity than infants HIV-unexposed uninfected (iHUU). We compared tuberculosis (TB) infection prevalence in 418 Bacillus Calmette-GuCrossed D sign.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1133-1136 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
Volume | 77 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 15 2023 |
Funding
Financial support. This work was supported by the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID) (grant number R01AI142670 awarded to K. M. P.). The Tshilo Dikotla study was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (grant number R01DK109881 awarded to J. J.). The InFANT study was supported in part by the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI), a research funding partnership composed of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the International Development Research Centre (grant number THA-118568 awarded to H. B. J. and C. M G.), as well as the NIAID (grant number R01AI120714-01A1 awarded to H. B. J.) and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (grant number R21HD083344 awarded to H. B. J. and C. M. G.). M. D. was supported by NIAID (grant number T32AI007433). S. C. I. was funded by Yoshida Scholarship Foundation.
Keywords
- HIV exposure
- Southern Africa
- T-SPOT.TB
- TB infection
- infants
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology (medical)
- Infectious Diseases