Case Report
HIV Infection and Osteoarticular Tuberculosis: Strange Bedfellows
Table 1
Case series of osteoarticular TB with HIV status.
| Country | Duration of study | Number of HIV+ cases/no of OA-TB cases (%) | Antiretroviral therapy |
| India [22] | 2010–2012 | 0/13 | — | India [23] | — | 0/93 | — | Thailand [24] | 1997–2006 | 1/77 | — | Nigeria [25] | 1998–2009 | 0/97 | | France [26] (including 74% African immigrants) | 1980–1994 | 1/206 | | United Kingdom [27] (including 89% South Asian immigrants) | 1988–2005 | 0/44 | — | Denmark [28] (including 50% Somalian refugees) | 1993–1997 | 3/26 | — | US [29] | 1999–2003 | 1/31 (3.2%) | All on ARV therapy | China [30] | 2011-2012 | 0/43 | — | Thailand [31] | 1994–2002 | 1/27 (3.7%) | — |
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OA-TB: osteoarticular TB; ARV therapy: antiretroviral therapy. Extraspinal OA-TB cases only. Spine and extraspinal OA-TB cases combined.
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