title: [Evaluation of the effect of chronic virus infection on laboratory tests results in patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effect of chronic virus infection on laboratory tests results in patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 121 patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis, who were hospitalized in Shenzhen Third People's Hospital during June 2008 to June 2012, were recruited for analysis. Clinical laboratory tests results were collected for comparison between patients with or without chronic co-infection with virus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the 121 patients, thirty patients were co-infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), two were with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and one was co-infected with HBV, HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Compared to patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis without HBV/HCV/HIV infection, patients with chronic HBV/HCV/HIV virus infection had similar positive rate of laboratory tests including tissue smear acid-fast bacilli (AFB) staining, tissue Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) culture, tissue Mtb DNA detection, serological test of antibodies against Mtb, and Mtb. antigen-specific interferon-gamma release assay. Similar results were also found for erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reative protein level and liver function including Alanine aminotransferase and Aspartate Aminotransferase.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chronic infection with HBV/HCV in patients with have no obvious effect on clinical laboratory tests related to tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Shicheng People's Hospital, Jiangxi , China.
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Ai-wu
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Ming-Xia
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qun-Yi
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Bo-Ping
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xin-Chun
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D006515:Hepatitis B virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000821:virology; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000821:virology