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%)	—

OA-TB: osteoarticular TB; ARV therapy: antiretroviral therapy.
Extraspinal OA-TB cases only.
Spine and extraspinal OA-TB cases combined.