Drug-Resistant TB, HIV and COVID-19 Co-Infection: Case Reviews from Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) potentially exacerbates drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). We describe the clinical presentation and outcomes of three patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), DR-TB and COVID-19. Case One: A virologically suppressed 31-year-old man on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB treatment presented with mild COVID-19 and was hospitalised for 10 days of clinical monitoring, despite being clinically stable with normal baseline inflammatory markers. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus polymerase chain reaction (SARS-CoV-2 PCR) positivity persisted at Day 28. Case Two: A virologically suppressed 37-year-old woman on ART and MDR-TB treatment presented with moderate COVID-19. Baseline inflammatory markers were raised, and dexamethasone and azithromycin were initiated with good clinical improvement. SARS-CoV-2 PCR positivity persisted at Day 28. Case Three: A viraemic 24-year-old woman on second-line ART and MDR-TB treatment, presented with mild COVID-19 disease, normal oxygenation and normal inflammatory markers, and remained clinically stable with negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR at Days 14 and 28. Conclusion: Screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection is advised for DR-TB patients with new or worsening respiratory symptoms.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it