{"id":8354,"date":"2022-03-22T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=8354"},"modified":"2023-05-05T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:01:20","slug":"can-you-get-tb-with-a-high-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8354","title":{"rendered":"Can you get TB with a high CD4 count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is still possible to get TB when you have a high CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p>People with high CD4 counts are at much lower risk of catching TB, but anybody can be infected. Many HIV negative people also get TB.<\/p>\n<p>If you are worried about TB symptoms please talk to your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about TB in South Africa you can download TAC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tac.org.za\/publications\/tb-our-lives\">&#8220;TB in Our Lives&#8221;<\/a>. It has information about signs and symptoms, treatment and prevention of TB.<\/p>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<p>TB and HIV coinfection (from the i-Base training manual)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK (BHIVA) guidelines on HIV and TB coinfection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This question from November 2012 was updated in March 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to contract TB with a high CD4 count over 700 and undetectable viral load?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,49,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections","category-south-africa","category-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21791,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}