TXBiobytes from Texas Biomed

TXBiobytes from Texas Biomed


TXBioBytes from Texas Biomed Episode 032 — TB and HIV: Battling Back Against a One-Two Punch

April 09, 2019

Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D.

Co-infections with HIV and TB are a persistent health problem. In otherwise health people with latent TB, only 5% will go on to develop active tuberculosis. In HIV/AIDS patients, the risk of developing active TB increases ten-fold to 50%.

Workers in Dr. Kaushal's lab take part in TB/HIV experiments.

About a third of everyone who has HIV dies of complications from TB. Professor and Director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center, Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D. a Texas Biomed researcher, recently published a collaborative study pinpointing a possible new avenue of protection for these patients.