HIV and Tuberculosis, 1st ed. 2019
A Formidable Alliance

Coordinators: Sereti Irini, Bisson Gregory P., Meintjes Graeme

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Globally, HIV-associated tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of infection-related death, accounting for one in every three HIV deaths and over 300,000 in 2017 alone. The HIV epidemic has undermined tuberculosis-control efforts in many countries around the world, as the virus has important modifying effects on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of TB. The management of HIV-associated TB is also complicated by rapid clinical progression, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, drug-drug interactions, and shared toxicities.

The past two decades have yielded thousands of research publications and review articles on HIV-associated TB. HIV and Tuberculosis: A Formidable Alliance consolidates this massive amount of data into a single resource. With contributions from myriad disciplines, including epidemiology, immunology, public health, and clinical medicine, this book provides well-rounded and thorough coverage that will appeal to researchers and clinicians alike.

1. Overview of the HIV-associated tuberculosis epidemic
Contance A. Benson

2. Epidemiology of Drug-susceptible, Drug-resistant Tuberculosis and HIV in Africa
Kogieleum Naidoo and Nikita Naicker

3. Modelling the HIV-associated TB epidemic and the impact of interventions aimed at epidemic control
P.J. Dodd, C. Pretorius, B.G. Williams

4. Immune Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the impact of HIV infection
Catherine Riou, Cari Stek, Elsa Du Bruyn

5. Clinical Manifestations of HIV-associated tuberculosis in adults
Sean Wasserman, David Barr, Graeme Meintjes

6. The tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS)
Irini Sereti, Gregory P. Bisson, Graeme Meintjes

7. Diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis
Andrew Kerkhoff, Adithya Cattamanchi

8. Recent advances in the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection among adults living with HIV infection
April C. Pettit, Timothy R. Sterling

9. Treatment of drug-sensitive tuberculosis in persons with HIV
Alice K. Pau, Safia Kuriakose, Kelly E. Dooley, Gary Maartens

10. Drug-resistant TB and HIV
Sara C. Auld, Neel R. Gandhi, James C.M. Brust

11. Co-treatment of tuberculosis and HIV: pharmacologic considerations
Ethel D. Weld, Alice K. Pau, Kelly E. Dooley

12. HIV and TB in children
Tonya Arscott-Mills, Ben Marais, Andrew Steenhoff

13. Neurological TB in HIV
Louise Bovijn, Regan Solomons, Suzaan Marais

Irini Sereti is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the HIV Pathogenesis Section at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. She is an Infectious Diseases trained physician with expertise in HIV and opportunistic infections including TB, doing translational research at the NIH Clinical Center where she sees patients enrolled in her clinical protocols while also conducting related laboratory research. The main focus of her research is study of people with HIV and advanced disease (low CD4 counts) and opportunistic infections, including TB, in the current antiretroviral area. She also studies inflammation in HIV infection both acutely after antiretroviral therapy initiation in the form of IRIS, but also chronically after suppression of HIV viremia, and has published papers on mycobacterial IRIS pathogenesis and imaging modalities. Her studies aim to better understand pathogenesis of HIV and severe CD4 lymphopenia with the goal to improve management of patients with late presentation to care.

Graeme Meintjes is a Professor of Medicine, Wellcome Fellow and SARChI Chair of Poverty-related Infections at the University of Cape Town. He is an Infectious Diseases Physician who undertakes consultant clinical work at Khayelitsha and Groote Schuur Hospitals. His research focuses on the clinical conditions affecting patients with advanced HIV disease including disseminated HIV-associated tuberculosis, the tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) and cryptococcal meningitis. His group also investigates drug-resistant tuberculosis. He has been the PI or local PI of several clinical trials and conducts observational cohort studies that address questions related to disease pathogenesis. Recently, he was PI of the EDCTP-funded PredART trial that demonstrated that prednisone was effective and safe for the pr

Unique in addressing HIV/TB co-infection, a common coexistence of the two diseases

Consolidates decades of research publications on HIV-associated TB

Contributions from experts within various disciplines, including immunologists, epidemiologists, and clinicians