Immunocompetent Versus Immunocompromised Tuberculosis (TB) Patients

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is one of the top 10 causes of mortality worldwide. It is estimated that in 2017, 10 million people were infected with TB, and 1.6 million died from the disease, including 0.3 million people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection . TB remains the primary killer of HIV-positive individuals. TB incidence is falling at about 2% per year . Airborne transmission of M. tuberculosis typically causes TB infection in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts and the disease is symptomatic and contagious .

What you commit to

• Study type: Observational
• Planned participants: 200
• From 10 Dec 2024 to the primary completion date, 20 Dec 2024
• 1 site in 1 country
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Who the study is looking for

Age in the registry: 16 years to 60 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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