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An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is inferred from positive results of T-cell immune conversion assays measuring Mtb-specific interferon gamma production or tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity. Certain exposed individuals do not display T-cell immune conversion in these assays...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7648124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33038764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103053 |
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author | Kroon, Elouise E. Kinnear, Craig J. Orlova, Marianna Fischinger, Stephanie Shin, Sally Boolay, Sihaam Walzl, Gerhard Jacobs, Ashley Wilkinson, Robert J. Alter, Galit Schurr, Erwin Hoal, Eileen G. Möller, Marlo |
author_facet | Kroon, Elouise E. Kinnear, Craig J. Orlova, Marianna Fischinger, Stephanie Shin, Sally Boolay, Sihaam Walzl, Gerhard Jacobs, Ashley Wilkinson, Robert J. Alter, Galit Schurr, Erwin Hoal, Eileen G. Möller, Marlo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is inferred from positive results of T-cell immune conversion assays measuring Mtb-specific interferon gamma production or tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity. Certain exposed individuals do not display T-cell immune conversion in these assays and do not develop TB. Here we report a hitherto unknown form of this phenotype: HIV-1-positive persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative (HITTIN). METHODS: A community-based case-control design was used to systematically screen and identify adults living with HIV (HIV+), aged 35–60 years, who met stringent study criteria, and then longitudinally followed up for repeat IGRA and TST testing. Participants had no history of TB despite living in TB hyper-endemic environments in Cape Town, South Africa with a provincial incidence of 681/100,000. Mtb-specific antibodies were measured using ELISA and Luminex. FINDINGS: We identified 48/286 (17%) individuals who tested persistently negative for Mtb-specific T-cell immunoreactivity (three negative Quantiferon results and one TST = 0mm) over 206±154 days on average. Of these, 97·2% had documented CD4 counts<200 prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART). They had received ART for 7·0±3·0 years with a latest CD4 count of 505·8±191·4 cells/mm(3). All HITTIN sent for further antibody testing (n=38) displayed Mtb-specific antibody titres. INTERPRETATION: Immune reconstituted HIV+ persons can be persistently non-immunoreactive to TST and interferon-γ T-cell responses to Mtb, yet develop species-specific antibody responses. Exposure is evidenced by Mtb-specific antibody titres. Our identification of HIV+ individuals displaying a persisting lack of response to TST and IGRA T-cell immune conversion paves the way for future studies to investigate this phenotype in the context of HIV-infection that so far have received only scant attention. |
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spelling | pubmed-76481242020-11-16 An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa Kroon, Elouise E. Kinnear, Craig J. Orlova, Marianna Fischinger, Stephanie Shin, Sally Boolay, Sihaam Walzl, Gerhard Jacobs, Ashley Wilkinson, Robert J. Alter, Galit Schurr, Erwin Hoal, Eileen G. Möller, Marlo EBioMedicine Research Paper BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is inferred from positive results of T-cell immune conversion assays measuring Mtb-specific interferon gamma production or tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity. Certain exposed individuals do not display T-cell immune conversion in these assays and do not develop TB. Here we report a hitherto unknown form of this phenotype: HIV-1-positive persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative (HITTIN). METHODS: A community-based case-control design was used to systematically screen and identify adults living with HIV (HIV+), aged 35–60 years, who met stringent study criteria, and then longitudinally followed up for repeat IGRA and TST testing. Participants had no history of TB despite living in TB hyper-endemic environments in Cape Town, South Africa with a provincial incidence of 681/100,000. Mtb-specific antibodies were measured using ELISA and Luminex. FINDINGS: We identified 48/286 (17%) individuals who tested persistently negative for Mtb-specific T-cell immunoreactivity (three negative Quantiferon results and one TST = 0mm) over 206±154 days on average. Of these, 97·2% had documented CD4 counts<200 prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART). They had received ART for 7·0±3·0 years with a latest CD4 count of 505·8±191·4 cells/mm(3). All HITTIN sent for further antibody testing (n=38) displayed Mtb-specific antibody titres. INTERPRETATION: Immune reconstituted HIV+ persons can be persistently non-immunoreactive to TST and interferon-γ T-cell responses to Mtb, yet develop species-specific antibody responses. Exposure is evidenced by Mtb-specific antibody titres. Our identification of HIV+ individuals displaying a persisting lack of response to TST and IGRA T-cell immune conversion paves the way for future studies to investigate this phenotype in the context of HIV-infection that so far have received only scant attention. Elsevier 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7648124/ /pubmed/33038764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103053 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Kroon, Elouise E. Kinnear, Craig J. Orlova, Marianna Fischinger, Stephanie Shin, Sally Boolay, Sihaam Walzl, Gerhard Jacobs, Ashley Wilkinson, Robert J. Alter, Galit Schurr, Erwin Hoal, Eileen G. Möller, Marlo An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa |
title | An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_full | An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_fullStr | An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_short | An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_sort | observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, hiv-1-positive but persistently tb, tuberculin and igra negative persons with m. tuberculosis specific antibodies in cape town, south africa |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7648124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33038764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103053 |
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