Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Clin Invest. 2020 Oct 1;130(10):5102-5104. doi: 10.1172/JCI137294.
Even with treatment of HIV with antiretroviral therapy (ART), the risk of tuberculosis (TB) reactivation remains higher in HIV-infected than HIV-uninfected persons. In this issue of the JCI, Ganatra et al. explored TB reactivation in the context of ART using TB and simian immunodeficiency virus-coinfected (TB/SIV-coinfected) nonhuman primates. The authors found that treating rhesus macaques with ART restored CD4+ T cells in whole blood, spleen, and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, but not in the lung interstitium. TB risk was not decreased in the coinfected macaques treated with ART for 14-63 days, suggesting that ART does not decrease the short-term risk of reactivation. Reactivation occurred as CD4+ T cells were increasing, which is consistent with observations made in humans. This study provides a potential model for systematic evaluation of TB/SIV coinfection and different treatment regimens and strategies to prevent TB reactivation.
即使采用抗逆转录病毒疗法(ART)治疗 HIV,HIV 感染者发生结核分枝杆菌(TB)再激活的风险仍高于 HIV 未感染者。在本期 JCI 中,Ganatra 等人研究了在 ART 背景下,TB 和猴免疫缺陷病毒(SIV)合并感染(TB/SIV 合并感染)的非人类灵长类动物中 TB 的再激活情况。作者发现,ART 治疗可恢复恒河猴全血、脾脏和支气管肺泡灌洗液(BAL)中的 CD4+T 细胞,但不能恢复肺间质中的 CD4+T 细胞。在接受 ART 治疗 14-63 天的合并感染恒河猴中,TB 风险并未降低,这表明 ART 并不能降低短期再激活的风险。再激活发生在 CD4+T 细胞增加时,这与在人类中观察到的结果一致。这项研究为系统评估 TB/SIV 合并感染以及不同治疗方案和策略预防 TB 再激活提供了一种潜在的模型。