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Pulmonary TB has long been described as a disease with a signature: a cavity carved into the upper lobes of the lung, surrounded by consolidation, in a patient with a productive cough. But in people whose immune systems have been devastated by HIV, that signature can vanish. A new cross-sectional study from southern Vietnam, published<\/a> in BMC Infectious Diseases, provides one of the most granular real-world pictures yet of how TB actually looks, sounds and tests in adults with advanced HIV disease, and it confirms a clinical suspicion that has circulated for decades: as CD4 cell counts fall, TB stops looking like TB.<\/p>\n Read the full news story here<\/a>.For more TB updates, check out<\/a> the TB CAB Weekly Newsletter (Issue #26, 4 October 2026). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bioengineer.org news story Pulmonary TB has long been described as a disease with a signature: a cavity carved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-624893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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