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Protein energy malnutrition and
risk of tuberculosis infection
Johan R. Boelaert
a and Victor R. Gordeuk
b
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Sir—In your June 15 Editorial,1 you
discuss the UN World Food Summit. In June, 2002, the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP)
warned at the World Food Summit of a severe, mainly drought-induced,
food crisis affecting about 13 million people in six southern
African countries—Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia,
and Zimbabwe—which are also struck by highly prevalent HIV-1
infection (around 15–36% in adults)2 and tuberculosis
(co-infection in a third of HIV-1-infected people). We stress the
potential impact of protein energy malnutrition on the incidence of
tuberculosis. |
Affiliations:
a Algemeen
Ziekenhuis St-Jan, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, B-8000 Brugge,
Belgium. b
Centre for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.
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