Question

Which statement about tuberculosis (TB) is true?

		1.Meningitis is the leading cause of death from tuberculosis.
		2.Chemotherapy, if made widely available, could eradicate the disease.
		3.TB is a common co-morbidity in HIV patients
		4.The TB bacillus is difficult to isolate.

Answer 1

3 True answer is TB is a common co-morbidity in HIV patients.

TB is the most common presenting illness among people living with HIV, including among those taking antiretroviral treatment, and it is the major cause of HIV-related deaths.

People living with HIV are 15-22 times more likely to develop TB than persons without. HIV weakens the immune system, increasing the risk of TB in people with HIV. Infection with both HIV and TB is called HIV/TB coinfection. Untreated latent TB infection is more likely to advance to TB disease in people with HIV than in people without HIV.